befog
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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
I whispered, hoping that the unaccustomed words would befog the old man sufficiently to cover my own embarrassment, and answer any doubts he might have as to the purpose of our errand there.
From One of My Sons by Anna Katharine Green
Laboratories, experiments, tables, classifications are all very vital and all very necessary but sometimes their net result is only to befog and confuse.
From The Human Side of Animals by Royal Dixon
The conceptions of Satan and his hosts and surroundings made classical by such as Dante and Milton and Doré have done much to befog the air.
From Quiet Talks on Prayer by S. D. (Samuel Dickey) Gordon
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
But then you arrive and everything is damp, blurred, befogged.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 11, 2018
His mind's eye is so befogged that he persistently mistakes sanctimoniousness for sanctity, guile for goodness.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
His course stretched before him—through the befogging, unmanning sweetness—to daylight and self-respect and an uncompromising sincerity of life.
From The Torch Bearer by Reina Melcher Marquis
But meantime— meantime… There is no doubt that when the frantic man realized his befogging ignorance, and found himself involved in this dreadful delay, the hotel clerk's apprehensions were, at least for wild moments, justified.
From The Iron Woman by Margaret Wade Campbell Deland
The greatest trouble comes through the befogging emotions.
From Nerves and Common Sense by Annie Payson Call
A man finally gets justice at the bar of his own conscience, but it is extorted gradually, reluctantly, with much befogging of the case.
From Opening a Chestnut Burr by Edward Payson Roe
