Word info

know any better

Verb

Meaning

know any better (third-person singular simple present knows any better, present participle knowing any better, simple past knew any better, past participle known any better)

Synonym of know better

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

People who don't know any better will always be in the dark because the power lies in the hands of men who take good care that ordinary folk don't understand, in the hands, that is, of the government, of the clerical party, of the capitalists. Cesare Pavese

Unfortunately, people are not rebelling against Microsoft. They don't know any better. Steve Jobs

The idiot is indeed the good man, but only because he doesn't know any better. William Saroyan

You can do something that walks a line, and invariably, whatever that line is, it will be crossed by people who don't know any better and want to ape the success. David Fincher

In the end, science offers us the only way out of politics. And if we allow science to become politicized, then we are lost. We will enter the Internet version of the dark ages, an era of shifting fears and wild prejudices, transmitted to people who don't know any better. Michael Crichton

I thought my friends were damn fools, because they didn't know any better way of conducting their lives. Still they conformed better than I to a code. I wanted to conform but I couldn't so I wrote my poetry. William Carlos Williams

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