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know-nothing
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know-noth·ing (nnthng)
n.
1. A totally ignorant person; an ignoramus.
2. An anti-intellectual.
3. An agnostic.
4. Know-Nothing A member of a political party in the United States during the 1850s that was antagonistic toward recent immigrants and Roman Catholics.
know-nothing·ism n.
know-nothing
n
Informal, disparaging an ignorant person


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While his dour vision may provide a call to action for similarly hoary policymakers in Congress, what it most clearly indicates is that Huntington and his ilk are mostly know-nothings about reality on the streets of the United States.
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The pundits and pooh-bahs may denounce Dean and Kucinich and Gephardt as protectionists or know-nothings.
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This fact is what gives him such confidence that the efforts of the Nativists and Know-Nothings would in the end prove self-defeating.
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