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adv. - In a manner that creates obscurity or darkness.

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Usage examples (3)
  • Adjective : benighted ages of barbarism and superstition
  • Hence he was not the man to prize a Tuscan well dug in the fourteenth century, cleaned perhaps never, and gradually filled to the brim with what the forwardlooking past...
  • That young girl, "he added unexpectedly," is one of the least benightedly unintelligent life forms it has been my profound lack of pleasure not to be able to avoid...
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