unenlightened

Example Sentences

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In particular, othering White working-class Americans as an undifferentiated mass of unenlightened souls is about the worst strategy imaginable for promoting greater harmony.

From Washington Post

Most of us, being unenlightened, torment ourselves with questions about what will or should happen next.

From Scientific American

But I do believe a newfound awareness about just how unenlightened we really are has taken root since George Floyd was killed, and that has put California on a potentially more just path.

From Los Angeles Times

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

These networks churn out ideological products in line with the state’s unenlightened gender norms, with women cast in subservient roles and deferential to men, their guardians and protectors.

From New York Times