befogged

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Look at me, uncle, clove-befogged, and shrink appalled from the dread sight, and pray for mercy Ishthis prop'r language t' address-t'-y'r-relative?"

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  • While Gigi's friends talk her off the figurative ledge, it's Alex who lets her in on a few things, such as how to tell if a guy is never going to call, even though Gigi has a hard time getting any of this through her pretty little romance-befogged skull. —  Variety.com
  • After a moment's struggle to remember what he wished to say, he found himself hopelessly befogged, and abandoned the attempt. —  The Story of the Upper Canada Rebellion
  • For In matters of emotional finesse the masculine instance is nowhere: it is blinded, befogged, befooled at every turn Heaven help the man who is dragged into a quarrel between two wrathful ladies Three things there be--nay, four--which man can never be sure, how a greatsoever his acumen, his astuteness, or his zeal: a woman; a race horse; a patent; and the money-market. —  Hints for Lovers
  • Now do not become befogged, nor frightened--we are not trying to lead you into the Christian Science field under cover of Hermetic Philosophy. —  The Kybalion A Study of The Hermetic Philosophy of Ancient Egypt and Greece
  • Entirely befogged, Great Taylor fumbled in her patent-leather bag with its worsted fruit, discovered two nickels, and placed the leaky boiler beside the rusty scales on the junk-cart Ain't I got enough junk without that?" —  O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921
 

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