benighted

Under the guise of morality, benighted political interests are being advanced.

Fauci had already received death threats from members of this benighted group, resulting in the government placing him under the protection of armed federal agents.

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.

But his loyal idiots, those benighted Americans who continue to worship him, have not given up.

Banham’s revolutionary study has aged both well and badly; his sense of the liberatory aspect of the freeways, for instance, now seems both sentimental and benighted.