befog

After adding befog, we’ve guessed more than three letters for more than 96 percent of all puzzles we might face in Wordle, in four guesses.

From Slate ● Feb. 5, 2022

No irrational, misguided sentimentality shall befog my firm conviction that Bob Cousy, while still at Holy Cross, retired the title to "The Greatest."

From Time Magazine Archive

Many tongues were busy with inuendo to belittle what the farmers had accomplished already and to befog their efforts to advance still farther.

From Deep Furrows by Hopkins Moorhouse

Notions like that befog one's mind; one rants of universal brotherhood, of liberty and equality and, of course, transcends every convention and every moral law….

From The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann Volume I by Gerhart Hauptmann

Yet every man who has ever lived has at times thought so; but to proclaim the thought—or even entertain it long—would stagger sanity, befog the intellect and make mind lose its way.

From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8 by Elbert Hubbard

Overruling those just to appease your clearly befogged co-parent is a bad habit to get into right as you’re starting this journey.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 27, 2022

So many years later, the “idealism” of that moment proved to be a mirage, viewed through the befogged lens of hubris, clouded by lies.

From New York Times ● Oct. 18, 2019

The Steilhang exuded the full gloom of a north face at befogged dawn.

From The New Yorker ● Apr. 22, 2019

Instead of being buried under documents, befogged by facts, you find yourself in the immediate, proximate, breathing presence of another human being — and there’s suddenly no room for anything else.

From Washington Post

When you shout Durham! the gloomy and befogged financial atmosphere becomes clear and there is a mad rush and scramble for her bonds.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson

From the frozen Moscow River, from the Kremlin, and the Cathedral of St. Basil, a vapor rose, clouding the skies and befogging the stars.

From Time Magazine Archive

These entailed not only befogging at the time, but disillusionment thereafter.

From This Freedom by A. S. M. (Arthur Stuart-Menteth) Hutchinson

But, as it chanced, Mr. O'Connor's elaborate mechanism for befogging his trail was entirely wasted, for the President, so far as could be learned, said not a thing on the subject to anybody.

From White Ashes by Sidney R. (Sidney Robinson) Kennedy

It clears away some of the clouds befogging us.

From Initials Only by Anna Katharine Green

Yet that could not explain the hypnotism the man had for me, befogging, as it sometimes did, an honest estimate.

From The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story by Edward J. (Edward Joseph Harrington) O'Brien