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
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
And again, skilful manipulators, dishonest self-seekers, are ever at hand with plausible theories calculated to befog the untrained, deceive the unsuspecting, and to lead them all astray.
From On the Firing Line in Education by Adoniram Judson Ladd
Sir," with calm energy, "man came into this world, not to sit down and muse, not to befog himself with vain subtleties, but to gird up his loins and to work.
From The Confidence-Man by Herman Melville
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
As always with the royal family, details about its internal deliberations are elusive and befogged in speculation.
From New York Times ● Apr. 26, 2021
The Steilhang exuded the full gloom of a north face at befogged dawn.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 22, 2019
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
‘Love’: 1647; a manifest befogging duplication of the ‘love’ in the preceding line.
From Thomas Stanley: His Original Lyrics, Complete, In Their Collated Readings of 1647, 1651, 1657. With an Introduction, Textual Notes, A List of Editions, An Appendis of Translation, and a Portrait. by Thomas Stanley
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
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
When he had stirred Driscoll out of his dejection enough to make him want to fight, he deigned to clear the atmosphere of that befogging downpour in Texas.
From The Missourian by Eugene P. (Eugene Percy) Lyle
