benighted

Just keep surfing and ignore the smoke plumes rising up from certain benighted parts of those beautiful Cape cities.

Strange place 2005

A beneficed clergyman from the most benighted, that is, most

The Kellys and the O'Kellys 2004

Now he kept a shop in what the Lords called the benighted section, far from the docks and the Lordshills.

The Burning City Niven, Larry 2000

Now he kept a shop in what the Lords called the benighted section, far from the docks and the Lordshills.

The Burning City Larry Niven 2000

So Yussuf, euphoniously termed a benighted heathen by some enlightened

Desert Love Joan Conquest

Hence it becomes all those who aspire to propound the tenets of Christianity to deferentially behave as Christians -- not to preach and teach one thing and live and enact another, while seeking to conduct the so-called benighted natives of Africa, or any other country, into the light of civilization and Christianity.

Africa and the American Negro...Addresses and Proceedings of the Congress on Africa Held Under the Auspices of the Stewart Missionary Foundation for Africa of Gammon Theological Seminary in Connection with the Cotton States and International Exposition December 13-15, 1895. John Wesley Edward 1896

A fuller, more powerful manifestation of the character, claims, attractions of the Father was necessary to recall the benighted wanderers from their lost state and restore them to those right relations and to that conscious communion with

The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life William Rounseville Alger 1863

A beneficed clergyman from the most benighted, that is, most Papistical portion of Connaught, would be sure, thought Mr O'Joscelyn, to have a fellow-feeling with him; to sympathise with his wailings, and to have similar woes to communicate.

The Kellys and the O'Kellys Anthony Trollope 1848

Just a continuation of what Kunstler calls the benighted culture of "Happy Motoring."

World Prout Assembly 2010

The creation of a simple and regular administrative system; the reform of the clergy; the emancipation of the Church from the jurisdiction of the Pope, and of all orders in the State from the jurisdiction of the Church; the amelioration of the lot of the peasant; the introduction of codes of law abolishing both the cruelties and the confusion of ancient practice, -- all these were purposes more or less familiar to the absolute sovereigns of the eighteenth century, whom the French so summarily described as benighted tyrants.

A History of Modern Europe, 1792-1878 Charles Alan Fyffe 1868