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Benighted
Benighted meaning
Overtaken by night; especially of a traveller, etc.: caught out by oncoming night before reaching one's destination. | Plunged into darkness. | Lacking education or knowledge; unenlightened; also, lacking morality; immoral, unscrupulous.
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Example sentences (9)
Although we may find concerns about depicting lesbianism or sex work on stage as signs of a more benighted time, the treatment of Sholem Asch provides a cautionary tale that speaks to our own age.
In recent days, women have been banned from attending university or working for non-governmental organisations (NGOs), many of them providing crucial, life-saving support to the most vulnerable in what is becoming, again, a benighted country.
Mostly, our sense of inferiority emanated from New York, the big city that disparaged what it considered its benighted country cousin.
Can we not have a single admirable civic figure for our benighted country to look to?
Not that the benighted, mullah-controlled Iranian regime is comprised of anything which resembles white hats.
So, after a bruising year, to which party can a benighted Big Tech CEO turn for support?
If you are one of those with hearing issues related to hard surfaces – and you have my sympathies; my late mother was just so benighted – Tozi will not make you happy.
My, my, what a cornucopia of creeps our benighted country has dished up for us this holiday season.
Only those who favor the exploitation of a servile coloured race for greed of gain, and a few professional economists and benighted theologians, are now heard in serious criticism of a White Australia; but.