unenlightened

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Recent Examples of unenlightened Dirty work is often assumed to be unenlightened work, but wildland firefighters have a unique empirical understanding of natural forces. M. R. O’Connor, The New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2025 And the culprit doesn’t seem to be a small number of unenlightened appraisers. Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 8 July 2024 Some are downright funky in their retro prejudices, others more quaintly unenlightened. Lauren Bravo, refinery29.com, 3 Jan. 2024 Most gratifying in Newnham’s investigation is how Hite reclaimed her own positive sense of self in exile through some key female friendships: a love goddess finding refuge with like-minded souls after a bruising battle with unenlightened, resentful mortals. Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 18 Nov. 2023 See All Example Sentences for unenlightened
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unenlightened
Adjective
  • One Battle After Another is the rare American film released in these benighted times of ours — with the backing of a major studio, no less — to be clear and insistent in the target of its anger, its despair and its prescriptions for what might make things better.
    Richard Lawson, HollywoodReporter, 17 Sep. 2025
  • With hundreds of years of patient work behind it, with some educational institutions willing to protect their scientists, and with researchers hard at work in less-benighted nations, the human desire to know and to understand will continue to produce results.
    Bill McKibben, New Yorker, 3 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • In Johnston’s reimagining, Jim and Credenza Twit operate the most disgusting, dangerous, and idiotic amusement park in the world, Twitlandia.
    Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 6 Oct. 2025
  • That’s just idiotic foreign policy.
    Jamie McIntyre, The Washington Examiner, 5 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The life of an unattractive and unintelligent young woman living in a dreary backwater in the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
    New York Times, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025
  • The man seemed to think he was surrounded by incompetent, unintelligent, wastes of space.
    Josh Davis, Fortune, 17 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The people who looked Indigenous were the uneducated characters, the cartoon characters.
    Abbey White, HollywoodReporter, 8 Oct. 2025
  • This Court finds that Respondent’s lack of candor on his I-485 was not an oversight by an uninformed, uneducated applicant.
    Filip Timotija, The Hill, 18 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The pilot has moments both sweet and funny, and sets up the possibility of romance amongst the characters, as well as further high jinks from a rotating cast of license seekers and citizens ignorant of the requirements for a Real ID.
    Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 11 Oct. 2025
  • At the time, central Appalachia was widely depicted in the popular press as a backward, ignorant region whose mountainous terrain kept its people isolated, outside the flow of progress – a stereotype still common today.
    The Conversation, The Conversation, 7 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • And, in one of the dumbest and most obviously racist postr taken by a presidential candidate, at some point Republicans became fixated on the idea that Haitian migrants were stealing pets for food in the Midwest.
    Sal Rodriguez, Oc Register, 18 Oct. 2025
  • After Johnson gave his answer to that resolutely dumb question, several other luminaries took a whack at the zeitgeist piñata.
    Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 17 Oct. 2025

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“Unenlightened.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unenlightened. Accessed 21 Oct. 2025.

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