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

The reference is to that benighted state’s surprising success in improving reading scores for its fourth-graders through a focused program of literacy instruction for teachers and pupils alike.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 3, 2023

In February 2018, she wrote an article for the Washington Post, calling Bostic's sentence "benighted and unjust".

From BBC • Mar. 20, 2023

Said Sullivan, “It soon became noticeable that he was progressively and grossly apologizing to the Eastern men for the presence of their benighted brethren of the West.”

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson