"benighted" is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is an adjective that means "lacking knowledge or enlightenment; at a disadvantage; unenlightened." For example: "The benighted citizens had no idea how to proceed with their civil rights protests."
In 2014, Missouri showed itself, and the nation, at its most benighted.
If a local prince proved benighted, his subjects high-tailed it to the next duchy.
The present and previous Israeli governments think a divided Palestine is easier to dominate, and hope that Egypt may take benighted Gaza, home to a million surly refugees, off their hands.In early 2007 the leaders of Fatah and Hamas managed, under Saudi auspices, to agree to a national unity government, but it collapsed after a few months, prompting Hamas's violent takeover of Gaza.
The unresolved issue has fuelled rivalry for dominance of the wider Maghreb region, in which the two countries are by far the biggest in terms of population: Morocco has 32m people, Algeria 35m.The benighted borderlandsMoroccan towns such as Oujda, a ten-minute drive from the border, have been hard hit.
LONG benighted, Ethiopia is attracting attention for a better reason.
Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.ukIn this section Beach bard The story of the Sackvilles Looking for a place called hope Poor and benighted Turning dark Riff on the world ReprintsTHE fat reports favoured by international development agencies are full of lofty goals like "making poverty history", not to mention grand claims about big victories.
A decade after Powell's infamous speech, Margaret Thatcher also reached out to the corners of benighted Britain with a reference to fears that the country would be "swamped by people with a different culture".
Edward Snowden's revelations have thus brought about some amelioration in the domestic surveillance regime within the US, but so far they have done little to protect those who live outside that benighted realm and quaintly regard privacy as a basic human right.
But then that wasn't a rounded story of gay life, but a reason to feel sorry for a benighted minority.
They have to show they have a plan for that benighted country which is worth not only killing, but dying, for and that this will help defeat the threat of terrorism elsewhere.
It is that benighted country's only fully functioning part.
