benighted

The play, which is having its Los Angeles premiere at Pasadena Playhouse, seems like it could have been commissioned to skewer this destructive, benighted and completely mortifying anti-science moment.

He’s a jingoistic caricature of benighted American exceptionalism, only now he’s reaching for the light of genuine goodness.

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.