- excuse my ignorance
- used for asking a question that someone might expect you to know the answer to
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excuse my ignorance
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ignorance — I noun benightedness, bewilderment, blindness, darkness, denseness, fog, foolishness, greenness, haze, illiteracy, illiterateness, imprudentia, incapacity, incognizance, incomprehension, ineptitude, inerudition, inexperience, innocence,… … Law dictionary
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