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ignorantly

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ig·no·rant  (gnr-nt)
adj.
1. Lacking education or knowledge.
2. Showing or arising from a lack of education or knowledge: an ignorant mistake.
3. Unaware or uninformed.
[Middle English ignoraunt, from Old French ignorant, from Latin ignrns, ignrant-, present participle of ignrre, to be ignorant, not to know; see gn- in Indo-European roots.]
igno·rant·ly adv.
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Adv.1.ignorantly - in ignorance; in an ignorant manner; "they lived ignorantly in their own small world"
Translations
ignorantly [ˈɪgnərəntlɪ] ADV → ignorantemente
we ignorantly went to the next house → al no saber, fuimos a la casa de al lado
ignorantly
adv → unwissentlich; behave → unhöflich, ungeschliffen, ungehobelt
ignorantly [ˈɪgn/ər/əntlɪ] adv → per ignoranza
ignorantly [ˈɪgn/ər/əntlɪ] adv → per ignoranza


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Here have I been unconsciously toiling, not pleasuring, --aye, and ignorantly smoking to windward all the while; to windward, and with such nervous whiffs, as if, like the dying whale, my final jets were the strongest and fullest of trouble.
Moby Dick I-LXVII by Melville, Herman View in context
The subject was a woman, whose husband was ignorantly convicted of having murdered her; but on solemn appeal to a higher court, he was acquitted because it was shown upon the evidence that she had died the death of which this name of spontaneous combustion is given.
Bleak House by Dickens, Charles View in context
He said, it was not from a motive of vain curiosity he had inquired, but in order to punish the fellow; at least, that he might not ignorantly confer favours on the undeserving.
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Fielding, Henry View in context
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