benighted
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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
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
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
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The Once and Future King
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