'unenlightened' is a correct and usable word in written English.
It can be used to describe someone who is lacking knowledge or understanding, particularly in a social, cultural, or intellectual sense. For example: - Many people in the small town were unenlightened about the benefits of diversity and held closed-minded views towards those who were different from them. - The unenlightened rulers of the country refused to listen to the pleas of their citizens, causing turmoil and unrest in the kingdom. - The teacher's goal was to educate her students and guide them towards a more enlightened mindset, rather than leave them unenlightened and closed off to new ideas.
Unenlightened Opposition routs ruling party Inside the valley of fear Reprints Related items The Koreas: Dollars, pleaseNov 1st 2001Last year, despite donations from South Korea in addition to the WFP's support, North Korea received 500,000 tonnes less food than it needed.
Of course, the unenlightened could stumble sometimes, burning their tongues, or jabbing in a fork after only one minute of silent contemplation, which bent the prongs and sprayed the soup over the keyboard.
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ON MAY 20th, East Timor will become an independent country, after 450 years of unenlightened Portuguese rule, 24 of brutal Indonesian occupation, and two-and-a-half under the supervision of the UN (see article).
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In Bashkortostan, another unenlightened Russian fief, a local radio journalist, Altaf Galeyev, is in jail for pointing out the unfairness of the (all but uncontested) presidential elections there.
Yet just because companies have new rights, that does not mean they must exercise them or must exercise them through the grubbiest, most unenlightened forms of lobbying.Just as companies increasingly claim to be behaving responsibly in the way they conduct their business, how about acting responsibly in their engagement with government?
Yet the government and judiciary of the same democratic country stubbornly want to stay in the company of the most unenlightened and anarchic countries run over by thuggish and illiberal regimes.
Mr Brown may worry that punishing some MPs will make him still less loved among the rest.Unfortunately, the politicians' self-interest is unenlightened and myopic.
Martina Navrátilová, a tennis legend, native Czech and out-of-the-closet lesbian weighed in deeming the comments "extremely unenlightened remarks coming from a very worldly man".Mr Hájek has issued a similar riposte this year, branding the week-long LGBT pride festival a "gay recruitment event".
Unenlightened Opposition routs ruling party Inside the valley of fear Reprints Related items Monkey businessNov 30th 2000Other, more moderate religious leaders have suggested that Mrs Chatsumarn and other women should be ordained as mae chis, or nuns.
