Sample sentences for BENIGHTED

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Definition

lacking enlightenment, knowledge, or culture

The poor, benighted innocent had never seen such a man.
Dickens, Charles -- David Copperfield

benighted = lacking enlightenment, knowledge, or culture

But their main gate used to come out on a different pass, one more easy to travel by, so that they often caught people benighted near their gates.
J.R.R. Tolkien -- The Hobbit

benighted = lacking enlightenment, knowledge, or culture

The verse died heavily away, and was lengthened by a chorus, not of human voices, but of all the sounds of the benighted wilderness pealing in awful harmony together.
Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Young Goodman Brown

benighted = lacking enlightenment, knowledge, or culture

benighted ages of barbarism and superstition
From a safe distance and still rubbing his buttocks, "Benighted fool!" shouted the man from The Fordian Science Monitor, "why don't you take soma?"
Aldous Huxley -- Brave New World
Last year, some benighted fool in a hot air balloon came bumbling over the island and had a good long look.
Kenneth Oppel -- Airborn
These few sounds wandering in the dark had made their two benighted lives tragic to my mind.
Joseph Conrad -- Lord Jim
Or it resembled a greedy, avid, delicious quagmire which would swallow up the lost, benighted traveler with a last tired, liquid, contented sigh.
Robert Penn Warren -- All the King's Men
And so this squire was benighted, and by misfortune he happened to come to a castle where dwelled a baron.
Thomas Malory -- Le Morte D'Arthur
I want to get some information about this benighted town.
Margaret Mitchell -- Gone with the Wind
No, that was a benighted voice, in Herr Settembrini's opinion—which he delivered with much emotion.
Thomas Mann -- The Magic Mountain
When he had identified these objects in what benighted mind he had, he said, in a dialect that was just intelligible: "How goes it, Jacques?"
Charles Dickens -- A Tale of Two Cities
Oh, thou poor lonely little benighted boy!
William Makepeace Thackeray -- Vanity Fair
Nelson, as usual, was the one who finally took pity upon our benighted stupidity and told us what was up: kukwela.
Barbara Kingsolver -- The Poisonwood Bible
"I suppose you think I'm awfully benighted."
Henry James -- The Portrait of a Lady - Volume 1
And so this squire was benighted, and by misfortune he happened to come to a castle where dwelled a baron.
Thomas Malory -- Le Morte D'Arthur, Volume II
We were supposed to ignore those benighted sheep, as Dad called them.
Jeannette Walls -- The Glass Castle
Is there no diet Coke in this benighted country?
Meg Cabot -- Queen of Babble
Without Ligeia I was but as a child groping benighted.
Edgar Allan Poe -- Ligeia
People, benighted ones, they came from all over Austria.
Henry Roth -- Call It Sleep

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