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词汇 benighted
释义 benighted
adjective
 literaryuk /bɪˈnaɪ.tɪd/ us /bɪˈnaɪ.t̬ɪd/
without knowledge or morals: 愚昧的,无知的
Some of the early explorers thought of the local people as benighted savages who could be exploited.一些早期的开发者认为当地人愚昧无知未开化,完全可以任由他们剥削。
Synonyms
cluelessinformal
ignorant
illiterate
unenlightened
uninformed
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Unaware
be in the darkidiom
be on another planetidiom
benightedly
blind spot
blindly
blindness
foggy
Goodness/God/Heaven/Christ knowsidiom
imperceptive
in blissful ignoranceidiom
innumeracy
innumerate
insensate
insensibly
stump
unattuned
unawakened
unaware
unawareness
unbeknownst

Examples of benighted


benighted
Even donniciuole, he says, were usually not so benighted.
Or the self he would be were he not so benighted.
Many joined with the thought of influencing, in some ways, the ' benighted ' peoples of the ancestral homeland.
When he does so, he is vowing not only to her, but to the freedom he yearns for and believes in as a possible outcome for his benighted life.
But benighted people do believe them.
One is to listen to what people say about their own experience, and the other is to listen to philosophers and philosophically minded social scientists who are less benighted.
They will save the poor benighted public from that by resisting this and that amendment because of information overload.
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There is the bringing about of dereliction which, in most of those benighted towns, has been unvarying for a decade or more.
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We had an example of this kind of benighted policy the other night.
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Some benighted constituents think it is the name of a vegetable.
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In this time of stress there are benighted districts, suffering heavily from the toll of unemployment and left in a very parlous state.
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We must return prosperity and peace to that benighted country.
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I want to say a word on behalf of the poor, benighted sheep farmers.
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Someone had to speak for poor, benighted clause 29.
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If nothing else, we owe that to the people of that benighted country.
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