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benighted

/bih-nahy-tid/US // bɪˈnaɪ tɪd //UK // (bɪˈnaɪtɪd) //

盲目的,堕落的人,盲目地

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : intellectually or morally ignorant; unenlightened: benighted ages of barbarism and superstition.
    • : overtaken by darkness or night.

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Examples

  • Israel looms large here as a malevolent actor that manipulated the benighted Americans into sharing its hostility toward Iran.

  • Colonial rhetoric was often virtuous: colonizers would bring civilization to benighted Africans.

  • But I quickly realized that no one really thought that—and if they did think that, they were too benighted to worry about.

  • Last week, I took it upon myself to introduce you benighted savages to one of the great comedies of modern times.

  • I knew immediately where to locate my benighted family and growing restlessness.

  • In 1975 he went from benighted Warsaw to far more benighted Luanda to cover the civil war in Angola.

  • One must take a sup of hot liquor when benighted in such freezing snow as this.

  • By some direct and primitively human way her benighted mind had reached its determination.

  • All this the benighted wanderers observed as they continued to approach cautiously on tiptoe.

  • A farmer returning homeward to the parish of Malew from Peel was benighted and lost his way among the mountains.

  • The week in which during all the years of many and long ages benighted people sacrificed their Christs to Shylock gods.