benightedness

Example Sentences

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Both Martin and his daughter have been bulwarks against a rising tide of benightedness, so personal education and edification have felt like a fitting tribute.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 18, 2023

Rarely have I seen a movie so confident that its audience not only revels in American benightedness but is eager to identify with it.

From Salon • Jun. 30, 2021

Here in stone and glass and wood was an eruption of human potential – a victorious yawp in the face of benightedness.

From Fox News • Apr. 16, 2019

Whatever problems may lie ahead, that benightedness now is gone.

From Time Magazine Archive

She could not understand half of what she deciphered and typed for him, and because she could not understand she realized the depth of her benightedness.

From Starr, of the Desert by Bower, B. M.