Derision of someone or something as foolish or absurd or inconsistent.
1 What, is baffling and befooling the enemies of God's church nothing?
2 Was he befooling the daughter of L'Aigle, or me?
3 Were all mankind resolved on befooling themselves?
4 I knew you would not refuse me; and smiling at the poor lad she was befooling , she passed into the cabin.
5 Or the wild coquette, with her arch, shy ways, and her serious laughing, and her befooling of the poor stupid lover?
6 The forger enjoys not only the pleasure of obtaining money so easily, but the triumph of befooling sharp men of the world.
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.
8 ("Deuce take this instructor of the people for befooling them so!"
9 "You wished to know something of the subject with which that lecturer was befooling himself and the audience at the same time."
Grammar, pronunciation and more
Translations for befooling