benightedness
Example Sentences
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Both Martin and his daughter have been bulwarks against a rising tide of benightedness, so personal education and edification have felt like a fitting tribute.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 18, 2023
Rarely have I seen a movie so confident that its audience not only revels in American benightedness but is eager to identify with it.
From Salon ● Jun. 30, 2021
Here in stone and glass and wood was an eruption of human potential – a victorious yawp in the face of benightedness.
From Fox News ● Apr. 16, 2019
Whatever problems may lie ahead, that benightedness now is gone.
From Time Magazine Archive
Have I in my musical benightedness conveyed an idea of anything musical?
From The Little Manx Nation - 1891 by Sir Hall Caine
