benighted

[ UK /bɪnˈa‍ɪtɪd/ ]
[ US /bɪˈnaɪtɪd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. overtaken by night or darkness
    benighted (or nighted) travelers hurrying toward home
  2. lacking enlightenment or knowledge or culture
    this benighted country
    the dark ages
    benighted ages of barbarism and superstition
    a dark age in the history of education
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How To Use benighted In A Sentence

  • Besides suffering through a variety of severe but all-too-common mine accidents in its benighted history, the coalfields of Vancouver Island have also played host to some of B.C.'s most famous activists.
  • Along with the time flies we grew up gradually,become increasingly miss myself benighted.
  • But isn't it surprising there have not been more deaths in that benighted land where people seem to have nothing else to do but take potshots at our boys.
  • Unknown to him, Barbara had written her own reportage of Liberia: Land Benighted (reissued in 1981 as Too Late to Turn Back) is a masterpiece of comic observation and mock-heroic misadventure. Shades of Greene: One Generation of an English Family by Jeremy Lewis
  • Protagonists are helpless and feeble, benighted, physically weak and powerless.
  • Along with the time flies we grew up gradually,become increasingly miss myself benighted.
  • “Father,” said Jack, “can you lodge a benighted traveller that has lost his way?"
  • Seen in this benighted context, the election is as inexplicable as it is marvellous.
  • When Mr. Heath, the benighted and storm-delayed traveler, threw back his dripping coat, and seated himself at the invitation of his host, before the blazing fire, Mr. Abbot thought that he had seldom seen a more attractive young man.
  • But is it right that our appetites wreak havoc on a country most of us have never been, and where grinding poverty of a kind that's been eliminated in even the most benighted, neglected corners of our own country is as common as it is confining?
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