"Slips of the pen" happen more often than we might suppose and certainly do not necessarily indicate carelessness, idleness or ignorance.

Fred intended to sound Purzley out, yet at the same time indicate ignorance of the hidden set-up.

She shows this to Hardy, who indicates ignorance of its significance.

His interpretation of the message was that it indicated ignorance on the part of Krode and Bracy.

It indicated ignorance, rather than refusal to reply.

The crowd, even those members of it who hadn't been able to get a good look at the fallen bowman, indicated definite ignorance.

They can be set to small positive numbers to give broad prior distributions indicating ignorance about the prior distributions of and .

They lifted their shoulders to indicate ignorance, so I said goodbye and continued my walk.

The old man hunched his shoulders to indicate ignorance.

The maid shrugged, indicating ignorance.