benighted

A benighted creature who has the folly to worship something that he can see and feel.

More than once some benighted angler had mentioned bonefish to me.

And on a day it befell him that he was benighted in a hermitage.

It was these benighted folk whom they desired to reach and convert.

It is here, gentle shepherds, the benighted stand most in need of your labors.

Some of our readers are benighted as to the meaning of that great word.

But, surely, they need not go thus far to seek for the benighted and the debased.

Oh, what crass ignorance one comes across in this benighted land.

Are there no ladders to be found in this benighted and over-cultivated region?

Could any trap for a benighted soul be more ingeniously planned?