A dramatist is usually thought of as a slightly benighted child of nature who somehow or other did it all on a Ouija board. From LearnThat.org. [Maxwell Anderson]
This benighted country. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
benighted (or nighted) travelers hurrying toward home. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
A beneficed clergyman from the most benighted, that is, most. From Wordnik.com. [The Kellys and the O'Kellys] Reference
So Yussuf, euphoniously termed a benighted heathen by some enlightened. From Wordnik.com. [Desert Love] Reference
Just a continuation of what Kunstler calls the benighted culture of "Happy Motoring.". From Wordnik.com. [World Prout Assembly] Reference
Now he kept a shop in what the Lords called the benighted section, far from the docks and the Lordshills. From Wordnik.com. [The Burning City]
As "benighted" as some of my comments about Wagner and his Ring cycle can be i.e., postmodern interpretation, I would probably not hold these thoughts. From Wordnik.com. [Misread mythos.] Reference
Its northern rivals call it despitefully the "benighted" Presidency. From Wordnik.com. [Indian Unrest] Reference
Websters online defines "benighted" as "existing in a state of intellectual, moral, or social darkness: unenlightened.". From Wordnik.com. [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]] Reference
Why go outside where it is benighted and melanomic?. From Wordnik.com. [Why Go Outside?] Reference
The poor, benighted U.S. finished an impressive 14th. From Wordnik.com. [Subsidy As a Way of Life] Reference
Do not believe, in spite of all you hear about the benighted Papal. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 1 January 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
Christianity and Islamism will effect among these benighted nations. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver] Reference
Hahnemann has sent forth among the benighted understandings of his fellow beings. From Wordnik.com. [Apis Mellifica or, The Poison of the Honey-Bee, Considered as a Therapeutic Agent] Reference
Lott Cary resolved that it was his duty to go and preach the gospel in benighted Africa. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 7, 1922] Reference
Our benighted heathens have a national beverage fermented from a plant similar to cactus. From Wordnik.com. [Adaptation] Reference
Wherefore standest thou thus with thy ifs and thy O-buts, O thou poor benighted Israelite?. From Wordnik.com. [The Riches of Bunyan] Reference
Enver Hoxha's rule over Albania was the most benighted of the region's totalitarian regimes. From Wordnik.com. [The Accident by Ismail Kadare] Reference
It is a singular habit of these benighted people, to keep their word whenever they make a promise!. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver] Reference
Is Japan hopelessly benighted and devoid of the activities described as the monopoly of Christianity?. From Wordnik.com. [Pan-Islam] Reference
Magically, Rexroat's phony sorcery turns out in every case to truly transform these benighted citizens. From Wordnik.com. [A Small-Town Sorcerer Casts His Spell] Reference
And these poor, benighted students have the additional misfortune to be placed in a class taught by me. From Wordnik.com. [Karl Giberson, Ph.D: Are We 'Cramming Religion Down Our Children's Throats?' or Creating Good Citizens] Reference
Used in this way, they are only a revival of an old French fashion, coarsely imitated in the benighted days of. From Wordnik.com. [Choice Cookery] Reference
If he doesn't make his fortune with this novel, the world will be an even more cruel and benighted place than he claims. From Wordnik.com. [More Trouble In Paradise] Reference
The light glowed on the hearth, and the benighted traveler hailed its welcome rays as he fared towards the hospitable door. From Wordnik.com. [Woman on the American Frontier] Reference
"Before you stage the hair-pulling contest," he said, "would you mind telling us poor benighted males what it is all about?". From Wordnik.com. [The Outdoor Girls at Wild Rose Lodge Or, the hermit of Moonlight falls] Reference
These were the first regiment of Sardinian Grenadiers, who, benighted on their way to the position assigned them, remained at. From Wordnik.com. [Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands] Reference
Obama will often refer sarcastically to the view a U.S. senator gets from a helicopter zooming over another benighted country. From Wordnik.com. [A Man at Home in the World] Reference
And since the press now expects him to find some benighted right-winger to be his patsy, it will have less impact when he lands his blow. From Wordnik.com. [The Greatest Expectation] Reference
Among the faithful messengers who have borne this Gospel of peace to the benighted red man, there have been many devoted and pious women. From Wordnik.com. [Woman on the American Frontier] Reference
For most of this decade, this benighted Andean nation, where 70 percent of the people live below the poverty line, has been stuck on a wheel of political and economic turmoil. From Wordnik.com. [‘Assets Will Be Confiscated’] Reference
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