know-nothing
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: 5.44 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A member of a secret antiforeigner political organization in the nineteenth-century United States.
American usage
Example Sentences
- "The legacy of the Know-Nothings lived beyond its life as an organization. The seeds of bigotry, fear and hatred bore fruit again in the years after the Civil War.[…] The First World War led to another outbreak of nativism. A new group, adopting the program of the Know-Nothings and the name of the Ku Klux Klan, came into being, denouncing everything its members disliked—Negroes, Catholics, Jews, evolutionists, religious liberals, internationalists, pacifists—in the name of true Americanism and of “Nordic superiority.”"
- "All over the world, know-nothing xenophobes are claiming – without evidence – that climate science is rigged."
Etymology
Usage
- American usage