benighted

Example Sentences

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It’s more like an existential dilemma, both for our bewildered and benighted country and for the world.

From Salon • Jan. 3, 2026

A young woman from an island community on the brink of extinction sets out on an odyssey across the vastness of the Pacific, hoping to save the people of her benighted home.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 15, 2025

The first two PMs in this benighted parliament – Barnier and Bayrou – took weeks to find.

From BBC • Sep. 8, 2025

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.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 11, 2023

He believed as firmly as Arthur did, as firmly as the benighted Christian, that there was such a thing as Right Finally, there was the impediment of his nature.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White