(a.) Destitute of knowledge; uninstructed or uninformed; untaught; unenlightened.
(a.) Unacquainted with; unconscious or unaware; -- used with of.
(a.) Unknown; undiscovered.
(a.) Resulting from ignorance; foolish; silly.
(n.) A person untaught or uninformed; one unlettered or unskilled; an ignoramous.
Example Sentences:
(1) It ignores the reduction in the wider, non-NHS cost of adult mental illness such as benefit payments and forgone tax, calculated by the LSE report as £28bn a year.
(2) Anything not eligible is simply ignored or assumed to be someone else’s responsibility.
(3) And this has opened up a loophole for businesses to be morally bankrupt, ignoring the obligations to its workforce because no legal conduct has been established.” Whatever the outcome of the pending lawsuits, it’s unlikely that just one model will work for everybody.
(4) No one expected us to win either of these byelections, but we can’t ignore how disappointing these results are,” he said, referring also to last week’s Richmond Park byelection.
(5) There were soon tales of claimants dying after having had money withdrawn, but the real administrative problem was the explosion of appeals, which very often succeeded because many medical problems were being routinely ignored at the earlier stage.
(6) He wanted to ignore Fallope, Vesale, Eustache, Fernet, minor authors.
(7) Spain’s constitutional court responded by unanimously ruling that the legislation had ignored and infringed the rules of the 1978 constitution , adding that the “principle of democracy cannot be considered to be separate from the unconditional primacy of the constitution”.
(8) The Cambridge-based couple felt ignored when tried to raise the alarm about the way their business – publisher Zenith – was treated by Lynden Scourfield, the former HBOS banker jailed last week, and David Mills’ Quayside Corporate Services.
(9) O rdinary hard-working people have genuine concerns about immigration, and to ignore immigration is to undemocratically ignore their needs.” Other than the resurgent importance of jam , this is the clearest message we are supposed to take out of Brexit.
(10) But when the city's Gallery of Modern Art opened in 1998, it totally – and scandalously – ignored the new wave of Glasgow artists.
(11) More than 80% of the carriers who were interviewed ignored the directions about personal hygiene.
(12) Finally, any sensible person must be aware that Labour will find it impossible to govern if it attempts to ignore the national demand for a referendum.
(13) It is resulted from a wrong interpretation of the lung pathology shown in an X-ray picture or its complete ignorance, absence of a regular double reading of fluorographic images, constant shortage of fluorographic films and presence of risk factors.
(14) A deadline for bids had been set for the previous midnight, but East chose to ignore it.
(15) Access to besieged areas was a condition of a truce brokered earlier this year by the US and Russia , but the Syrian government has continued to ignore requests for aid deliveries, humanitarian officials say.
(16) The transport system was analyzed in terms of an equivalent circuit model comprising a proton motive force (PMF), an active conductance (LH) in series with the pump, and a parallel or passive conductance which may be ignored in this preparation.
(17) It's a declaration of exclusion: West is not a member in good standing of DC's Foreign Policy Community, and therefore his views can and should be ignored as Unserious and inconsequential.
(18) The correct formulae, which are available from the theory of age-dependent branching processes, are often ignored in the biological literature, perhaps due to their complexity.
(19) The authors describe several recent court cases in which judges have ignored or distorted acceptable clinical practices, conceivably creating a new liability standard whereby a tragic outcome is considered the result of failure to apply appropriate judgment.
(20) The circumferential stress in the vessel wall was greatly increased by diabetes; great errors will result if the opening angle is ignored.
Obnoxious
Definition:
(a.) Subject; liable; exposed; answerable; amenable; -- with to.
(a.) Liable to censure; exposed to punishment; reprehensible; blameworthy.
(a.) Offensive; odious; hateful; as, an obnoxious statesman; a minister obnoxious to the Whigs.
Example Sentences:
(1) They occupy that weird middle ground between anonymity and celebrity; they're from well-regarded restaurants, but they're not at the level where, say, James Martin can be obnoxious at them on Saturday Kitchen.
(2) Only in recent years has serious attention been given to the control of chemotherapy-induced emesis (CIE) which is to the patient a most obnoxious side-effect.
(3) At the place where adorable meets obnoxious and the purr becomes a shriek, Leslie Mann is waiting to unload a howitzer of funny in your face.
(4) This paper describes examples of adolescent behavior which parents and school personnel find obnoxious.
(5) Beneath this, there is the obnoxious notion that people owe their employer loyalty, gratitude and even love; tug your forelock and go "the extra mile" for an employer who may show you no loyalty and dump you as soon as you become old, pregnant or sick.
(6) The interview, broadcast on 1 October, and the BBC's decision to invite the party's leader, Nick Griffin, on to Question Time next week indicated the BBC was "sadly succumbing" to those who "in Griffin's obnoxious words, 'defend rights for whites with well-directed boots and fists'," he adds.
(7) Perhaps it was because, despite being the first portable music player, it wasn't as easy to lug around as the MP3 player; its chunky dimensions compelled it to be worn clipped to a belt, creating the danger that it would unclip itself – which it did with obnoxious regularity – and crash to the ground, disgorging its batteries.
(8) If Mitchell may seem a little rebarbative to some tastes, he would have to try hard to be more obnoxious than John Tully, who has demanded his resignation .
(9) Echoing one of his most famous early speeches, Bin Laden told “brothers ... in the Islamic Maghreb” their job was “to uproot the obnoxious tree by concentrating on its American trunk”, and to avoid being occupied with the local security forces.
(10) Instead, the BBC is sadly succumbing to those who would, again in Nick Griffin's obnoxious words, "defend rights for whites with well-directed boots and fists".
(11) The unspoken rule is that pedestrians and bikes give way to cars even at a zebra crossing – which is obnoxious, not to mention dangerous.
(12) I think that we would make more progress if, instead of complaining about sexualisation – a divisive and nebulous concept – we fought sexism, which is more easily comprehended and is at the root of almost everything troubling and obnoxious.
(13) The only free expression worth anything in a democracy is the right for the person whose views one regards as most obnoxious to be heard.
(14) His personality is obnoxious and he should not be feted as a role model for young people.” The protest will be at the SSE Arena between 5.30pm to 7pm, organisers said.
(15) It seemed particularly obnoxious for him to have used a homophobic slur while starring in a play about the vexed, affectionate and mutually dependent relationship between two men.
(16) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Of course their unspeakably obnoxious stage manner was not to everybody’s taste.
(17) Dunkin' Donuts was cutting hot chocolate, while Starbucks obnoxiously announced it would not bother to comply for months at least.
(18) Snoring is a common obnoxious disturbance in human society.
(19) RMT is in consultation with our taxi members over the possibility of a boycott of this obnoxious and abusive character.” An RMT spokesman said it was a matter for LBC to decide whether to continue to employ Mellor as a presenter, but added: “If he’s supposed to be presenting a balanced debate there’s a question about whether he is a fit person to present the programme.” LBC had no immediate comment.
(20) "There is a lot of energy and it's brilliant to be part of it because I know that back in the day I would have dragged myself through this and been as loud as hell, smoking two cigarettes at once and being really obnoxious.