benighted

Example Sentences

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It’s more like an existential dilemma, both for our bewildered and benighted country and for the world.

From Salon • Jan. 3, 2026

A young woman from an island community on the brink of extinction sets out on an odyssey across the vastness of the Pacific, hoping to save the people of her benighted home.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 15, 2025

Most importantly, gays and lesbians had acquired a political voice; gay-bashing would no longer work for a political candidate as it had in the past, except perhaps in the most benighted corners of American society.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 7, 2025

As Winkler repeatedly shows, they — and Oxfordians in particular — tend to see themselves as evangelicals on a mission, tirelessly spreading their persecuted gospel to benighted unbelievers.

From Washington Post • Apr. 21, 2023

Nelson, as usual, was the one who finally took pity upon our benighted stupidity and told us what was up: kukwela.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver