Sample Sentences for
benighted
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  • We were supposed to ignore those benighted sheep, as Dad called them.†  (source)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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.
  • That is just so outdated and benighted and so ...wrong, I'm not even going to dignify it with an answer.†  (source)
  • 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)
  • I want to get some information about this benighted town.†  (source)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Sir Grummore Grammursum, who was staying the night because he had been benighted out questin' after a specially long run, said that when he was their age he was swished every mornin' because he would go hawkin' instead of learnin'.†  (source)
  • 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?"†  (source)
  • Is there no diet Coke in this benighted country?†  (source)
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