Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The doctrines or principles of the Know-nothings.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The doctrines, principles, or practices, of the Know-nothings.
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Examples
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The candidates have picked up on a strand of know-nothingism also at work in the states.
Eric L. Lewis: Demagoguery and Sharia: Reviving an American Tradition Eric L. Lewis 2011
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The candidates have picked up on a strand of know-nothingism also at work in the states.
Eric L. Lewis: Demagoguery and Sharia: Reviving an American Tradition Eric L. Lewis 2011
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I'm aware that the history of American politics teems with deceit, vulgarity, spectacle, corruption and know-nothingism.
Marty Kaplan: Keeping Up With the Kandidates Marty Kaplan 2011
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The issue for them isn't Perry's good 'ol boy know-nothingism on a host of issues -- that's a plus in this Tea Party Invasion-of-the-Republican-body-snatchers season.
Michael Sigman: Read Our Lips: No New Texans Michael Sigman 2011
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You may despair that the rationality required to face up to reality will never overcome the fundamentalism, know-nothingism and magic thinking that has a hammerlock on our national psyche.
Marty Kaplan: Pessimism Is the Last Taboo Marty Kaplan 2011
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I'm aware that the history of American politics teems with deceit, vulgarity, spectacle, corruption and know-nothingism.
Marty Kaplan: Keeping Up With the Kandidates Marty Kaplan 2011
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You may despair that the rationality required to face up to reality will never overcome the fundamentalism, know-nothingism and magic thinking that has a hammerlock on our national psyche.
Marty Kaplan: Pessimism Is the Last Taboo Marty Kaplan 2011
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Republicans have a romance with knowing nothing as long as one seriously believes in their know-nothingism.
Think Progress » Sarah Palin calls global warming studies ‘snake oil science.’ 2010
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This is the kind of know-nothingism that undermines public support for vaccination altogether and leads to such public health milestones as California reporting in 2010 the highest number of whooping cough cases in 55 years.
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The issue for them isn't Perry's good 'ol boy know-nothingism on a host of issues -- that's a plus in this Tea Party Invasion-of-the-Republican-body-snatchers season.
Michael Sigman: Read Our Lips: No New Texans Michael Sigman 2011
frogapplause commented on the word know-nothingism
The doctrines or principles of the Know-nothings.
October 9, 2010