befog

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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

He had a variety of disguises, each designed to befog the public more hopelessly than the last.

From The Man with Two Left Feet And Other Stories by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

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

It's just a theory, and good detectives distrust theories, which often befog clever brains.

From Mary Louise Solves a Mystery by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

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

She wasn’t befogged, as their father had been.

From The New Yorker ● Mar. 18, 2019

But then you arrive and everything is damp, blurred, befogged.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 11, 2018

The basic 2-B dispute has been befogged by both sides: by McDonald's charges that the steel industry is out to "bust the union," and by the industry's failure to explain its case to the public.

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

And if he didn't he'd tell you so, without befogging the atmosphere with a lot of things he did know, but that wouldn't help you in the least.

From The Man Who Rocked the Earth by Robert Williams Wood

But Holymead vamped up all sorts of surmises and suppositions for the purpose of befogging the jury and getting their minds away from the outstanding feature of the case for the prosecution.

From The Hampstead Mystery by John R. (John Reay) Watson

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

Perhaps they are approaching this part of the earth like comet that carries its tail before it, and I am already enveloped in a disturbing, befogging nebulosity.

From A Kentucky Cardinal by James Lane Allen