I knew, darling, because I'm not a complete ignoramus and I can count.

Emily was a tenderfoot, but she wasn't a complete ignoramus.

I didn't want to seem like a complete ignoramus so I kept my mouth shut.

"Quinqueremes are very clumsy," Octavian said, revealing that he was not a complete ignoramus when it came to war galleys.

Then: "At least I am not the complete ignoramus: I had sense enough to bring those vulnerable children up here.

I'm not a complete ignoramus, Mater.

"But any human could do it, even a complete ignoramus."

Shaw's exasperation with Stead ("a complete ignoramus") arose mainly from "the slow murder" of his work.

I'm not a complete ignoramus, you know.