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mystifying

How to use mystifying in a sentence

False gods, whatever degree of godhead they usurped, had for a time the mystifying power of concealing their falsehood.

JAFFERYWILLIAM J. LOCKE

It can only mislead and mystify and the greater part of the literature is a mere jumble of inaccurate and mystifying statements.

When she was weary of mystifying foreign statesmen she turned to find fresh sport in mystifying her own ministers.

Hume wished to amuse himself with mystifying his friends about the pamphlet above alluded to, called Sister Peg.

On the whole, the subject of the singer's muscular sensations is usually rather mystifying to the student.

Whenever he glanced in that gentleman's direction his glance was met by winks and mystifying shakes of the head.

What interest can the State have in mystifying people's intellects in favour of revolutions, and civil and foreign wars?

If I could have drunk adulation, no man was in more imminent hazard of mystifying his own brains.

When it is desired to keep the ingredients of the composition a secret a coloring matter may be added to assist in mystifying.

The facts were surprising—providing they were the facts—and Brady's knowledge of them was equally mystifying.

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985