disabuse

How To Use disabuse In A Sentence

• The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan disabused us of this notion. The President's Risky Defense Strategy
• Goodness only knew how she was going to disabuse his mind of the erroneous assumption now clearly fixed in it. ON A WILD NIGHT
• The rash of strikes on the railways and elsewhere should quickly disabuse them of that delusion.
• He had thought that he was good enough to become a professional stage designer, and Dinah had disabused him.
• This artifice, a manifestation of the diabolic nature of its author, had too much of the success intended by it, for, although the Governor managed to disculpate himself in the eyes of the more candid-minded Iroquois leaders, yet there were great numbers of the people who could not be disabused, as is usual in such cases, even among civilized races. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 12
• They kind of disabuse you of the notion of your greatness pretty quickly. Tonight
• And any reader who had imagined that her helter-skelter style was actually the product of careful contrivance will here be disabused.
• Two days after our return to Trinidad, a triumphant call disabused me of any idea of his suffering.
• Professor Hart disabused me of my addled adolescent liberalism and smugness over the four years I was his student as an undergraduate.
• I used to believe in meld until people disabused me of the notion. The Volokh Conspiracy » To Meld — What Does “Meld” Mean?