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

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

Their position is strongest when they maintain that these topics have a tendency to befog the intellect. 

From The Book of Dreams and Ghosts by Andrew Lang

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

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

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

From The New Yorker ● Mar. 18, 2019

It is the dramatization of that inexplicable bewilderment that has befogged men from the first grey light of a primeval dawn.

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

Reed cast an agonized look at the cook and remained speechless, but Tucker, with more experience in the befogging properties of language, rushed to his assistance.

From Come Out of the Kitchen! A Romance by Alice Duer Miller

And yet—— For "yets" and "ifs" and "howevers" had already begun to intrude, befogging many a consideration hitherto clear as cut glass.

From Man to Man by Jackson Gregory

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

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

And the Tribune dares to make this impudent attempt at befogging the American people, and at the same time dares to tell that people that it is "intelligent."

From Diary from November 12, 1862, to October 18, 1863 by Adam G. de Gurowski, Count