unenlightened

/ (ˌʌnɪnˈlaɪtənd) /

adjective

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

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How to use unenlightened in a sentence

Yes, there are unenlightened people in this country who will discriminate based on skin color.
An Inconvenient Truth: Neither Party Is Serious About Diversity | Ron Christie | December 6, 2013 | THE DAILY BEAST
How is Pastor Jones so different from an unenlightened Islamist who would rip to shreds a Bible?
The Problem With Burning Qurans | Tunku Varadarajan | September 7, 2010 | THE DAILY BEAST
The other computer companies were corporate and mindless, selling their products to the unenlightened masses.
Will Apple Finally Lose Its Cool? | Kevin Maney | January 6, 2009 | THE DAILY BEAST
She was delighted with these indications of gratitude and sensibility on the part of the unenlightened and lowly peasantry.
Madame Roland, Makers of History | John S. C. Abbott
Your unenlightened doctor would see nothing in these sensations; and yet you yourself perceive they are a part of health.
The Pocket R.L.S. | Robert Louis Stevenson

How the miracle had been worked he couldn't conceive, and Tanqueray was careful to leave him unenlightened.
The Creators | May Sinclair
The problem of Good has bothered the unenlightened for ages.
The Status Civilization | Robert Sheckley
The enemies of France, and those who, all unenlightened, attack the Church.
A Boswell of Baghdad | E. V. Lucas

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