Translation for 'total ignorance' from English to French

total ignorance

ignorance {f} totale

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to profess total ignorance of the matter

prétendre ne rien savoir de l'affaire

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ignorance

ignorance {f}

to feign ignorance

faire l'ignorant

to plead ignorance

plaider l'ignorance

staggering ignorance

ignorance {f} confondante

through ignorance

par ignorance {adv}

blissful ignorance

douce ignorance {f}

out of ignorance

par ignorance {adv}

ignorance of sth.

méconnaissance {f} de qc.

ignorance [of manners]

manque {m} d'éducation

ignorance [lack of knowledge]

méconnaissance {f} [fait de mal connaître]

Ignorance is bliss. [idiom]

L'ignorance est salvatrice. [loc.]

ignorance verging on stupidity

ignorance {f} proche de la bêtise

ignorance bordering on stupidity

ignorance {f} proche de la bêtise

to keep sb. in ignorance of sth.

laisser qn. dans l'ignorance de qc.

Ignorance of the law is no excuse.

Nul n'est censé ignorer la loi.dr.

Pride, ignorance, and folly are constant companions. [idiom]

L'orgueil, l'ignorance et la sottise vont toujours ensemble. [loc.]

total

global {adj} [revenu, somme]

parfait {adj} [ignorance]

dans son intégralité {adj}

complet {adj} [misère, échec, destruction]

• However, Thomas Hayward's declared belief that Heywood was with the mutineers was damaging, as was the evidence of John Hallett concerning Heywood's alleged insolence in laughing and turning away from the captive Bligh—though Hallett had previously written to Nessy Heywood professing total ignorance of the part Heywood had played in the mutiny.
• In the season 10 episode "Make Room for Lisa", Homer demonstrates total ignorance of the Bill of Rights, and he loses his Eighth Amendment protections from cruel and unusual punishment after mistakenly wiping the words off of the document.
• Even friends of Davis's resented his habit of leaving Congress in total ignorance of executive policy and administration.
• noting that all of this is in total ignorance of the CDC's own published study confirming face masks do not prevent transmission.
• Her pose of total ignorance convinced them: MI5 put off interviewing her for nearly a week, and the Macleans' house was never searched.

• There is an account that the shame of military failure was originally so great that this son was brought up in total ignorance of who his father had been, and only inadvertently discovered the truth of his background at the age of fifteen.
• The report found that senior gardaí had "almost total ignorance" of the fact that phone calls were being recorded.