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WOTD  
Word of the Day - for Toastmasters everywhere
Wednesday 7th February 2024
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benighted (adjective) be-NITE-id



Ignorant, unenlightened, lost in intellectual, social or moral darkness.

And where am I to find curry, in God's name, in this benighted neighbourhood?

Lynne Reid Banks, The L-shaped Room. Amazon

Not listening was always one of my faults and one of the reasons I so frequently found myself isolated in misunderstanding: like a careless rider, cut off from the company, alone and benighted for failing to pay attention to the prevailing agreements as to intention and direction.

Alice Thomas Ellis, The Clothes in the Wardrobe. Amazon

The benighted inhabitants of Italy, a land, lost in the darkness of error, still persist in their fasts, notwithstanding the evident folly of their ways—and the Norwegian sailors provide them with large quantities of fish for their idolatrous customs, bringing back their wines in exchange

Marie Corelli, Thelma. Amazon

What's more, advanced cloning techniques have meant that television, that most potent of guides to public morals and lifestyles in this benighted land, now teems with dominators and dominatrices modelled on the dark mistress of The Weakest Link.

Stuart Jeffries, The Guardian, 19 June 2007. Guardian




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