Sample Sentences forbenighted (editor-reviewed)
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The poor, benighted innocent had never seen such a man. (source)benighted = lacking knowledge or experience
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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. (source)benighted = in the dark (figuratively) due to a lack of knowledge, advantages, or moral understanding
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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. (source)
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We were supposed to ignore those benighted sheep, as Dad called them.† (source)
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But at the end, after all the blood and grief, all those benighted souls who without us would have suffered in darkness are happy citizens.† (source)
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Nelson, as usual, was the one who finally took pity upon our benighted stupidity and told us what was up: kukwela.† (source)
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And Hire is off into the lurid main avenue of the Towne Hall, a tunnel of flickering and pulsating loglo through which black creatures sprint like benighted sperm up the old fallopians, sharp angular things clenched in their hands.† (source)
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to them day Had unbenighted shone, while the low sun, To recompense his distance, in their sight Had rounded still the horizon, and not known Or east or west;† (source)standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unbenighted means not and reverses the meaning of benighted. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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That is just so outdated and benighted and so ...wrong, I'm not even going to dignify it with an answer.† (source)
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I want to get some information about this benighted town.† (source)
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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?"† (source)
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Oh well one must get used to such things in our situation, we are virtually prisoners ourselves you know, although one must feel pity for these poor benighted creatures, and after all she was trained as a servant, and it's as well to keep them employed, she is a wonderful seamstress, quite deft and accomplished, she is a great help in that way especially with the girls' frocks, she has an eye for trimmings, and under happier circumstances she could have made an excellent milliner's assistant.† (source)
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But that impression—of a certain amount of learning, of casually expressed good manners, of sophistication—made me cringe at my raw ignorance and the benighted seizure I had had on the subway train, with my simpleminded premonition of squalid gloom and cultural deprivation.† (source)
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Is there no diet Coke in this benighted country?† (source)
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Last year, some benighted fool in a hot air balloon came bumbling over the island and had a good long look.† (source)
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What I mean is that since the preponderance of cultural influences has come down to us from European early settlers, and since those early settlers inflicted their values on the "benighted" cultures they encountered ("benighted," from the Old English, meaning "anyone darker than myself"), those inflicted values have gained ascendancy.† (source)
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