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

You’ve let his plausible tongue and handsome face befog you.”

From The Pagan Madonna by W. H. D. (William Henry Dethlef) Koerner

It could be done only by one whom all the world had conspired to befog and befool about his importance in the scheme of things.

From The Convert by Elizabeth Robins

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

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

A modest wooden structure, it is planned "like a wide-angle camera" to take utmost advantage of the frequently befogged Sausalito daylight, has clear glass over half its front and rear elevations.

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

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

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

She seemed to grow afraid, too, of the spell that was befogging them, and sought rescue in a flippancy.

From The Cup of Fury A Novel of Cities and Shipyards by Henry Raleigh

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