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- adverb In a
benighted manner
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Examples
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Zimbabwe starves & dies while he parades a wicked, autocratic arrogance before the people he benightedly condemns.
Zimbabwe Ivan Donn Carswell 2008
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Hence he was not the man to prize a Tuscan well dug in the fourteenth century, cleaned perhaps never, and gradually filled to the brim with what the forwardlooking past benightedly took for rubbish.
The Collectors Frank Jewett Mather
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That young girl, "he added unexpectedly," is one of the least benightedly unintelligent life forms it has been my profound lack of pleasure not to be able to avoid meeting. "
Life, the Universe, and Everything Adams, Douglas, 1952-2001 1982
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