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unenlightened

/ ˌʌnɪnˈlaɪtənd /

adjective

not well-informed, tolerant, or rational
a most backward, unenlightened nation

Yes, there are unenlightened people in this country who will discriminate based on skin color.

How is Pastor Jones so different from an unenlightened Islamist who would rip to shreds a Bible?

The other computer companies were corporate and mindless, selling their products to the unenlightened masses.

She was delighted with these indications of gratitude and sensibility on the part of the unenlightened and lowly peasantry.

Your unenlightened doctor would see nothing in these sensations; and yet you yourself perceive they are a part of health.

How the miracle had been worked he couldn't conceive, and Tanqueray was careful to leave him unenlightened.

The problem of Good has bothered the unenlightened for ages.

The enemies of France, and those who, all unenlightened, attack the Church.

April 20, 2024flabbergast

[flab-er-gast ]

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