Adjective : benighted ages of barbarism and superstition. From Dictionary.com.
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 benightedly took for rubbish. From Wordnik.com. [The Collectors] Reference
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 meeting. ". From Wordnik.com. [Life, the Universe, and Everything]
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