There are people who are benighted enough to hate Jews, that's it.
They might indeed be wrong — even "absolutely wrong," as Obama said of Elizabeth Warren — but not all of them are benighted; not all of them are cynics.
Even in the legendarily liberated nineteen-sixties, mainstream attitudes toward homosexuality were benighted to a degree that is difficult to exaggerate.
It might be tempting to dismiss history's distant follies as the function of a bygone and benighted era, but Shepard's short fictions remind us that all eras are benighted because humanity is inherently flawed, reckless and blinkered.
Finally, there is the clear implication that those who remain married for life are benighted, craven losers without the guts to pursue their zen, rather than those whose love and devotion deserve our respect.
But the biggest problem for many businessmen may be benighted government policies.These start with Germany's "energy transition," a plan to exit simultaneously from fossil fuels and nuclear energy.
Praise be! Could it be that the higher powers in Scotland have finally found a solution to combat the deep fried diet image that's benighted my countrymen and -women for decades?
And since there are benighted sticklers out there who will mistakenly accuse you of making an error when you split an infinitive, you might as well not ask for trouble if it makes no difference to the sentence anyway.
I woke up to find a text saying, "We're benighted in Dent Blanche, can you ring the hut keeper [at the foot of the mountain]." So I rang but no one answered and I thought, "Crap they're all out looking for Dan and his dad!" Spending a night out with no bivouac is a recipe for frostbite or possible death.
Their ideologues had already turned the faith into an ideological weapon, claiming that all other Muslims were benighted, deluded or heretical.
