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Meanwhile, Hirsch and Church play a father-son team so benightedly moronic they could be refugees from a Farrelly brothers comedy.

From Slate • Jul. 27, 2012

I alone was magnificently and absurdly aware—everyone else was benightedly out of it.

From The Sacred Fount by James, Henry

Kate wasn't brutally brutal—which Milly had hitherto benightedly supposed the only way; she wasn't even aggressively so, but rather indifferently, defensively and, as might be said, by the habit of anticipation.

From The Wings of the Dove, Volume 1 of 2 by James, Henry

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.

From The Collectors by Mather, Frank Jewett