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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
- 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 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
- Without Ligeia I was but as a child groping benighted.Edgar Allan Poe -- Ligeia
- Is there no diet Coke in this benighted country?Meg Cabot -- Queen of Babble
- People, benighted ones, they came from all over Austria.Henry Roth -- Call It Sleep
benighted = lacking enlightenment, knowledge, or culture
benighted = lacking enlightenment, knowledge, or culture