unenlightened

Example Sentences

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They were trying to avoid seeming judgmental, unenlightened or disloyal to a socially expected script.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 2, 2026

"We should have been moved by your willingness to suffer 'censure, suspension, or removal from the conference' to enforce your personal preferences on the overwhelming majority of your unenlightened colleagues," McClintock wrote in the letter.

From Salon • Oct. 23, 2023

But overall, the show achieves nothing but leaving the viewer feeling "depressed" and "unenlightened", she added - especially given that several Savile documentaries already exist.

From BBC • Oct. 10, 2023

Or, “How do you transform an America, still organized around the concept of ethnic ghettos, in an age when even the unenlightened agree that racism and redlining should be relics of the past?”

From Washington Post • Apr. 29, 2021

Having proceeded this far, I ceased, and saw the unenlightened look in his eye.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson