So let's call the bluffs of know-nothing partisans. From Wordnik.com. [Brian Palmer: Facts, Fudge & FOIA] Reference
After all I didn't actually accuse David of being a know-nothing. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Harlowe's Golden Summer] Reference
How did know-nothing atheism and lazy theology grab the spotlight?. From Wordnik.com. [John Shook, Ph.D.: For Atheists and Believers, Ignorance Is No Excuse] Reference
I looked at her with my know-nothing face, but inside I was trembling. From Wordnik.com. [The Joy Luck Club]
No true conservative know-nothing would use the word "intellectualize"!. From Wordnik.com. [A Day At The Congressional Races] Reference
Who are the know-nothing jamokes who dream of a Guiliani administration?. From Wordnik.com. [Quote Of The Day] Reference
Hugs and kisses. kos p.s. As for the know-nothing pundits in DC and the DLC?. From Wordnik.com. [Opinion Roundup: Who Gets Credit, Rahm Or Netroots?] Reference
"Superintendent Mullett is a stuck-up, pompous know-nothing sod," answered Simms. From Wordnik.com. [Frost at Christmas]
The "know-nothing" wing of the so-called New Atheism really lives up to that label. From Wordnik.com. [John Shook, Ph.D.: For Atheists and Believers, Ignorance Is No Excuse] Reference
But you're going to have a real hard time making the case that she's a "know-nothing.". From Wordnik.com. [New Obama Ad In Pennsylvania Attacks Hillary Ad That Attacked Obama Ad] Reference
This issue is dead, and so are the Michigan hopes of economic know-nothing John McCain. From Wordnik.com. [Poll: Despite Revote Controversy, Obama Takes Lead In Michigan] Reference
BTW, before any academics scream that I am a know-nothing outsider, I work in the sector. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
Nancy HR Puf-N-Stuff is one of the many know-nothing economic advisers in McShame campaign. From Wordnik.com. [McCain Surrogate: The Truth About Iraq Undermines Our Troops] Reference
Same reason as people make for the exit when faced with time-wasting know-nothing pub bores. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
If she were a man, she would have already been banished from the national stage as a know-nothing. From Wordnik.com. [Heather Robinson: The Savaging of Sarah Palin] Reference
It wasn't just in Washington, D.C. that we saw intrusive and know-nothing disruptions over the weekend. From Wordnik.com. [Anne Butterfield: Today's Know Nothing Movement, Seen from Boulder] Reference
They will not fail to tell you plainly that you must not think they belong to the "know-nothing" class. From Wordnik.com. [The American Missionary — Volume 43, No. 02, February, 1889] Reference
That's kind of know-nothing policy making isn't good government -- indeed, it's barely government at all. From Wordnik.com. [David Sirota: Where's Our City and State Government?] Reference
As we've seen with the debate in the Senate, Ted Stevens is far from the only know-nothing on this issue. From Wordnik.com. [Daily Digest: 8/20/07] Reference
There were “know-nothing” candies, “know-nothing” toothpicks, and “know-nothing” stagecoaches. From Wordnik.com. [Steve Fraser: History's Mad Hatters: The Strange Career of Tea Party Populism] Reference
I, who always prided myself on being "out there" on the food front, now found myself "outed" as a know-nothing. From Wordnik.com. [Suzette Standring: Strange Foods -- China Takes Gold] Reference
Under strong leadership, such "know-nothing" movements have usually been beaten back by progress and prosperity. From Wordnik.com. [Paranoia politics crosses the Atlantic as Tea Party champions come ashore] Reference
The populist know-nothing sentiment in our politics is best summed up by Sarah Palin's wink in Thursday night's debate. From Wordnik.com. [Why Won't the Candidates Name Their Cabinets?] Reference
I can't even bring myself to learn the names of all the "new"/"old" incoming heads of do-nothing, know-nothing committees. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 11, 2006] Reference
I have not brought any of the statistics with me, for fear some know-nothing might cry at our after-dinner speech 'Figures.'. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography.] Reference
Proposals to eliminate the National Biological Service and slash global change research rest on the same know-nothing stance. From Wordnik.com. [Remarks By Asst For Science Gibbons To Aaas Forum] Reference
Syckel had always considered his boy a "know-nothing," and was very much surprised to find that he had invented the scooter scow. From Wordnik.com. [The Scientific American Boy The Camp at Willow Clump Island] Reference
While you may not agree with the president, to go and do some symbolic know-nothing, mean-nothing vote I think is rather dangerous. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 28, 2007] Reference
Predictably, he makes most of those critics, who mostly toil for obscure web sites or alt-weeklies, look like know-nothing wannabes. From Wordnik.com. [Joel Keller: Jamie Kennedy Strikes Back at his Critics in Self-Indulgent Heckler] Reference
No matter: his folksily know-nothing adviser James Carville declares, "" All the wrong people are against it, so it must be right. ''. From Wordnik.com. ['This Thing Is A Turkey'] Reference
What mattered is that Sarah Palin turned out to be a complete know-nothing, who was arrogant enough not to know that she knew nothing!. From Wordnik.com. [Mark Green: 7 Days in America: Lakoff on Voters' Brains and Obama's Brain, with Huffington, vanden Heuvel & Green] Reference
She and Rush and other rousers of the know-nothing rabble have made millions and millions peddling their propaganda to a willing thrall. From Wordnik.com. [Ann Coulter Loses It, Calls Elizabeth Edwards A "Harridan"] Reference
And that was very troubling for the American people, because we just lived through eight years of being led by an arrogant know-nothing. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 30, 2008] Reference
The Planetarium item dramatizes the know-nothing, anti-science, anti-education attitudes of the McCain voter base, as well as his cynicism. From Wordnik.com. [Jules Siegel: The Adler Planetarium and McCain's Fake War on Earmarks] Reference
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