Sentence examples for proved ignorant from inspiring English sources

That happened in Iowa, where police proved ignorant of the law on open alcohol containers.

That happened in New Jersey, where police proved ignorant of the law on high beams.

Police from California to Kansas to Illinois to New Hampshire proved ignorant of the law on items ranging from tail lights to turn signals to tinted windows to fog lines to U-turns to red lights—only to be rewarded for it, as judges, in the typical scenario, refused to throw out evidence (drugs, most often) seized as a result of the ill-founded stops.

Well, that's still a "wow" thing: it's incredible that people are still making that argument; when someone says something like that, he's just proved himself ignorant, disingenuous, or both.

"And it just proves how ignorant you foxhunting fraternity are!

First off, your timing alone couldn't be better to prove how ignorant your company is.

My friend Michael Meyer, a Peace Corps China teacher who later became the author of the acclaimed book "The Last Days of Old Beijing," proved to be equally ignorant about doorknobs in Mandarin.

But Sagal proves himself shamefully ignorant of ballpark etiquette.

For the last six months it has rallied around candidates who have proven too tawdry, ignorant or repellant to sustain a lead.

Commenting on the settlement, Nawaz said, "Throughout these negotiations, Thomson Reuters World-Chave have proven obstinate, argumentative, ignorant of basic legal classifications and oblivious to the harm they have caused me and my work through their defamatory list.

Hosts score points by either making you into a Ditto-head (I capitalized) or, if you're courageous enough to disagree with the host, by proving just how ignorant you are and how your values have led you astray.