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Meanings of know-nothings in English

Russian
партия ничего-не-знаю
Portuguese
know nothing
Spanish
partido nativo americano
Catalan
know nothing
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American political movement and party in the 19th century with anti-catholic tendency.

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партия ничего-не-знаю
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Examples for "know nothing"
Examples for "know nothing"
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They know nothing beyond their assigned tasks when the attack takes place.
The broken blade
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I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals.
Heart Of Darkness
3
How could local authorities and communities have managed, apparently, to know nothing?
The Irish Times
4
Of course we can know nothing of the details of the encounter.
The Invisible Man
5
I've been here long enough to know nothing in Africa happens fast.
Night of knives
1
For a time the Native American party seemed likely to take the place of the moribund Whig party.
Stephen A. Douglas: A Study in American Politics
1
The Know-Nothing American Party nominated Fillmore at their convention in February.
A. lincoln: a biography
2
The "Know-Nothings" were also called the " American Party," and their motto was "America for Americans."
School History of North Carolina : from 1584 to the present time
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Argument made for the '' American Party.''
Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White — Volume 1
4
Mr. Simons, nevertheless, presents this "reformism" as the proper policy for the American Party at its present stage:-
Socialism As It Is / A Survey of The World-Wide Revolutionary Mo...
5
The 1850s saw the rise of the American Party, better known as the "Know Nothings," that were staunchly anti-immigrant and anti-Catholic.
The Guardian
Usage of know-nothings in English
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A draft dodger who pays his first-year know-nothings more than I'll ever make.
True blue
2
For the Tinsel Town know-nothings who inhabit Hollywood, electing B.H.O.
Obama zombies: how the liberal machine brainwashed my generation
3
It's easy to dismiss boomers as know-nothings -but they got some things right, OK?
The Guardian
4
They were know-nothings, as a matter of fact.
Practical Magic
5
It included whigs, democrats, free-soilers, abolitionists, and know-nothings.
The Life of Abraham Lincoln
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Under new leadership, perhaps spurred by some bad event, populist know-nothings may have taken power and stopped the process.
Existence
7
Let the know-nothings say on.
Droll Stories — Volume 2
8
The educated fear their fate may be decided by know-nothings who are ignorant of how the world really works.
The Guardian
9
Some among the Whigs, the anti-Nebraska coalition, and the Know-Nothings felt betrayed.
A. lincoln: a biography
10
One might, in a manner of speaking, call them the Know-Nothings.
The Neverending Story
11
The Whigs and the Know-nothings then disappeared from national politics.
A School History of the United States
12
Another party made up of old Whigs and Know-nothings nominated John Bell of Tennessee.
A Brief History of the United States
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This was the remnant of the Know-Nothings of 1856.
Expansion and Conflict
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All the Fillmore Know- Nothings and Silver-Grey Whigs of the State were recognized as brethren.
Political Recollections / 1840 to 1872
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The Know-Nothings, likewise, though their number had been steadily melting away, had not entirely disappeared.
Abraham Lincoln and the Union: A Chronicle of the Embattled Nort...
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The Know-nothings arose and disappeared, without accomplishing anything.
Children of the Market Place