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Meanings of befooling in English

Spanish
ridiculización

Derision of someone or something as foolish or absurd or inconsistent.

        ridiculización
        Usage of befooling in English
        1
        What, is baffling and befooling the enemies of God's church nothing?
        The Riches of Bunyan: Selected from His Works
        2
        Was he befooling the daughter of L'Aigle, or me?
        Lords of the North
        3
        Were all mankind resolved on befooling themselves?
        Reason and Faith; Their Claims and Conflicts / From The Edinburg...
        4
        I knew you would not refuse me; and smiling at the poor lad she was befooling, she passed into the cabin.
        For the Term of His Natural Life
        5
        Or the wild coquette, with her arch, shy ways, and her serious laughing, and her befooling of the poor stupid lover?
        Macleod of Dare
        6
        The forger enjoys not only the pleasure of obtaining money so easily, but the triumph of befooling sharp men of the world.
        The Experiences of a Barrister, and Confessions of an Attorney
        7
        And it was at this juncture that Kenwick had recourse to a curious befooling of himself in which long practice had made him an adept.
        A Venetian June
        8
        ("Deuce take this instructor of the people for befooling them so!"
        The Day of Wrath
        9
        "You wished to know something of the subject with which that lecturer was befooling himself and the audience at the same time."
        David Elginbrod
        Translations for befooling
        Befooling through the time