How to Use unenlightened in a Sentence

unenlightened

adjective

• Some facets of the map’s 1950s world view seem unenlightened today.
  — National Geographic, 21 Dec. 2017
• The British media often covered the biracial Meghan in ways which were, to say the least, unenlightened.
  — Clark Collis, EW.com, 8 Dec. 2022
• And then there are the poor, unenlightened souls who insist on eating their pie warm.
  — Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 16 Sep. 2022
• Chazelle loves movies and doesn’t seem to hold it against the industry that its early days were so … unenlightened.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 16 Dec. 2022
• Back in more unenlightened times, husbands returning from a long-haul flight would bring their wives the latest boutique item.
  — Silvia Marchetti, CNN, 28 Aug. 2021
• There is a different pathos to characters who die mad and unenlightened.
  — New York Times, 10 May 2018
• It’s sometimes shown as a punishment, or a means of control — right up there with the lobotomy as a medical practice best left in the unenlightened past.
  — Kate Golembiewski, Discover Magazine, 15 Dec. 2022
• For the unenlightened, here’s what makes Instant Pots so spectacular: This multi-cooker does it all (and fast).
  — Amy Eisinger, M.a., SELF, 27 Nov. 2022
• Two unhappy souls, having had the misfortune to be born in an unenlightened age, will take comfort in each other’s arms, in a rousing rebuke to the social code of their times.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2020
• Mitchell, who spent much time and energy while living here fighting for racial justice and attempting to enlighten the unenlightened, liked the tweet.
  — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 3 Nov. 2022
• Harbaugh, for the unenlightened, hasn’t produced a depth chart for public consumption in his first five seasons coaching his alma mater and isn’t likely to do so when the Big Ten joins fall football next month.
  — Eric Hansen, The Indianapolis Star, 22 Sep. 2020
• Using one disease to combat another does not seem so outlandish, so unenlightened, in this light.
  — Rebecca Kreston, Discover Magazine, 31 May 2014
• But while the unenlightened are still debating whether women over 50 should be allowed to wear miniskirts, nothing short of a fashion revolution has been taking place on the red carpet.
  — Harper's BAZAAR, 30 Apr. 2018
• Much of the American public viewed this hesitancy as a relic of a bygone, unenlightened age.
  — Jordan E. Taylor, Time, 5 Apr. 2021
• Her character dealt with sexism (an unenlightened male staff), single parenthood (11-year-old Helen Hunt played her daughter) and the usual amount of crime.
  — New York Times, 25 Mar. 2021
• Regarding the rugby itself, Carter presents the game as is, without much guidance for the unenlightened, though anyone familiar with American football will get the gist.
  — Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times, 19 Jan. 2023
• Carell plays Riggs more as an affable, unenlightened boob than a villainous creep.
  — Stephanie Zacharek, SI.com, 22 Sep. 2017
• The opening chapter follows the aforementioned vicar through the damp, unenlightened village of Rohatyn, showing his progress through the Jewish ghetto and into the warrenlike house of a local rabbi.
  — Jake Bittle, The New Republic, 2 Mar. 2022
• At the same time, a hairy Marxist academic who's been hanging around the factory tries to persuade the workers to collectivize and run the place themselves, a notion that soon collides with their unenlightened self-interest.
  — Chicago Reader, 7 Mar. 2018
• Apparently there are still some unenlightened humans out there who make fun of e-bikes, just like certain close-minded folks once made fun of snowboarders or people who wore fanny packs or rode bikes in jean shorts.
  — Krista Langlois, Outside Online, 17 Oct. 2022
• When a country like Syria is engulfed in a civil war, it’s treated as tragic, but inevitable—just the same savagery that’s constantly happening in an unenlightened part world.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 2 Mar. 2022
• Brodie has been assailed for his unenlightened attitudes about women.
  — Janet Maslin, New York Times, 17 June 2019
• As infections and death tolls rise exponentially, so will the pressure on unenlightened despots to demonstrate their power over people’s freedoms of movement.
  — Adam Weinstein, The New Republic, 17 Mar. 2020
• Mallu spent the nineteen-thirties trying to speed up history by exiling the unenlightened from positions of power.
  — Bathsheba Demuth, The New Yorker, 15 Aug. 2019
• This gives the emotions of their scenes more complexity, and though Freyer can’t do much else with her troubled character, Klasko is at times heartbreaking in his portrait of conflicted and hopelessly unenlightened love.
  — Jesse Green, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2023
• In the bleak moral universe of the show, the powerless are ground up into a paste by grifters sporting the patina of legitimacy that only bottomless cash, connections, and unenlightened self-interest can provide.
  — David Faris, The Week, 29 Apr. 2022
• Instagram does not necessarily have people picking out posts and banning them, but their algorithms are trained on datasets many suspect to be biased and unenlightened.
  — Annie Brown, Forbes, 19 Oct. 2021
• Bella acts as an audience proxy, overwhelmed by all the cultural differences and resistant to join a community that sees her as a helpless, unenlightened Earther.
  — Joshua Alston, Variety, 6 July 2022
• Implicit in the idea is that some elite group—whether neuroscientists, corporate executives, or policymakers—would claim to know some moral truth and then issue rules for the unenlightened to follow.
  — Vanessa Rampton, Slate Magazine, 20 Mar. 2017
• Only knuckleheads—and the obstinately unenlightened—write off Buffalo, N.Y., as nothing more than a winter icebox and the birthplace of a certain sports-bar delicacy.
  — Jennifer Fernandez, WSJ, 6 Sep. 2018

Last Updated: 27 Jul 2024