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know-nothing

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Adjective

  1. Ignorant; characterized by foolish denial of facts or beliefs in that which is not true.

Noun

  1. An ignorant person; one who lacks knowledge.
  2. A member of a secret antiforeigner political organization in the nineteenth-century United States.

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