Sentence example with the word 'disabuse'

disabuse

amend, conflict, difference, disillude, dissent, enlighten, let down easy, purge, release, strife, undeceive

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Last update: August 4, 2015


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Green, of course, saw no reason to disabuse the media of their misconceived perception of his great power.   [verb]

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If you wish to continue to believe that falsehood, I will not disabuse you by telling you the truth.   [verb]

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His success as a dramatist had by this time gone some way to disabuse hostile critics of the suspicions as regards his personal character which had been excited by the apparent looseness of morals which since his Oxford days it had always pleased him to affect; but to the consternation of his friends, who had ceased to credit the existence of any real moral obliquity, in 1895 came fatal revelations as the result of his bringing a libel action against the marquis of Queensberry; and at the Old Bailey, in May, Wilde was sentenced to two years' imprisonment with hard labour for offences under the Criminal Law Amendment Act.   [Please select]

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The quicker the public mind north of Wrangel is disabused of that idea, the better.   [Please select]

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I can see the solicitor glancing from him to me in an apprehension of which I did my best to disabuse him by reassuring looks.   [Please select]

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