Used in a Sentence

ignored

How to use ignored in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for ignored.

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Quick take

disregarded; "his cries were unheeded"; "Shaw's neglected one-act comedy, `A Village Wooing'"; "her ignored advice"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of ignored gathered in one view.

adjective

disregarded; "his cries were unheeded"; "Shaw's neglected one-act comedy, `A Village Wooing'"; "her ignored advice"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for ignored.

adjective

disregarded; "his cries were unheeded"; "Shaw's neglected one-act comedy, `A Village Wooing'"; "her ignored advice"

Example sentences

1

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2

This article admits that he ignored all of the warnings he was given, and now accuses Google of unfair business practice. I don't buy it.

3

But one thing that can't be ignored is how polished their development tools are. I absolutely love coding in Visual Studio.

4

His rights to privacy were utterly ignored. And it goes on We need to wake up and see that those that "protect" our safety have reduced us to a state of fear worse than that which we are trying to prevent.

5

He later reversed his stance on the issue, but it was too late for him to affect it and just left it as a recommendation to the next pres- who ignored it.

6

Dependent objects were either simplified or simply ignored. With the rise of mock object frameworks, however, your tests specifically say "this method on this mock will be called X number of times, with this result".

7

The news probably would have been ignored, or, if it wasn't, I might have been branded as a coward and a disloyal employee, betraying the people who put food on my table. And I being under 30, overpaid, over-priviledged, etc.

8

I wish I could have ignored you saying that John Carmack is not a real hacker, but I couldn't. Carmack has consistently pushed forward multiple industries on multiple fronts, and remains to this day a far better programmer than any I've ever worked with.

9

Quoted text was ignored where possible; instances of "or", as in, "insensitive or rude", counted as a point for each, except for "or anything", which was ignored. Terms were very lightly massaged, for example, "so callous" would have counted simply as "callous".

10

Org, and people have started to push some effort in it [3][4][5], but it has been totally ignored since the beginning, despite the communication attempts. Maybe I don’t have all the informations, but it looks like a waste to me, and I find it disrespectful for the people who worked on the project.

11

What would have happened if the perihelion precession of Mercury's orbit was ignored as an erroneous result? We would have lost key evidence for general relativity.

12

I think the part about OOP is also misguided, but it's so obviously tacked on to a rant about functional programming that I just ignored it. Haskells purity is not about getting rid of side-effects but about controlling side-effects.

13

Most of them had fairly loose preferences for favorite programming languages, and favorite development methodologies, and basically ignored the fad du jour. What they did have was an obsessive focus on the user, and on getting things done so they could move on to get other things done.

14

I lived there for one year, before moving to SF and while everybody told me I should constantly be watching my back, I mostly ignored it and was fine. But after I moved to SF, I found myself in Oakland for a party and sure enough, with a couple friends, I got myself mugged at gunpoint by three scary-looking local gangsters.

15

Send an email or two, fine, but after sending emails and leaving messages that were all unreturned, after leaving messages with people who know the man behind the pseudonym which were ignored, this journalist still had to track him down to where is is now working and try to get through to talk to him. Being a journalist does not give you a right to stalk people.

16

On the phone they went to a website and ignored warnings in order to download and execute a malicious APK. On the PC they followed a link in a scammy looking phishing email to download and open a malicious Office document. On the Mac they visited a website that had an ad suggesting that they needed an "antivirus program" so they downloaded and installed it.

17

This is still a board for entrepreneurs before it is a board for hackers, but some of the more out-there John Galt type stuff will now get picked apart and downvoted, or even just ignored, where before you either clucked your tongue in agreement, remained silent, or donned your flame suit.

18

Either the President is lying, or Congress is putting on a sham of shock when they were already aware of all of this, or the President is throwing them under the bus for not bothering to read and understand the information before reauthorizing--thus making a move to avert public outrage toward their representatives, all of whom allegedly had this information and ignored it when reauthorizing. Or something else.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use ignored in a sentence?

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What does ignored mean?

disregarded; "his cries were unheeded"; "Shaw's neglected one-act comedy, `A Village Wooing'"; "her ignored advice"

What part of speech is ignored?

ignored is commonly used as adjective.