I must disabuse you of your feelings of grandeur. From LearnThat.org.
This talent to disabuse is in large part the obverse of Coward’s capacity for shrewd self-assessment. From Wordnik.com. [Faster, Faster] Reference
I must once again disabuse you of this notion. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Criminal Charges Against Anti-Homosexuality Street Preacher Dropped in England] Reference
They kind of disabuse you of the notion of your greatness pretty quickly. From Wordnik.com. [Femalefirst.co.uk - Celebrity Gossip + Lifestyle Magazine] Reference
Please disabuse your mind of any such mistaken idea. From Wordnik.com. [Psychology and Achievement Being the First of a Series of Twelve Volumes on the Applications of Psychology to the Problems of Personal and Business Efficiency] Reference
Rowley hastened to disabuse any prejudice against Miss. From Wordnik.com. [Tales from Many Sources Vol. V] Reference
DOBBS: Kevin Trenberth, can you disabuse John Christy?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 15, 2006] Reference
And -- and it's hard to disabuse people of that notion. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 14, 2007] Reference
The scan today will either confirm or disabuse us of that. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 10, 2006] Reference
Hoar, and he wanted to disabuse his mind of that impression. From Wordnik.com. [Fifty Years of Public Service] Reference
And I'm wondering if you want to disabuse us of that notion. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 14, 2003] Reference
RUMSFELD: No. That's what I would want to disabuse anyone of. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 14, 2004] Reference
And you couldn't disabuse them of the fact, no matter what you did. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 21, 2005] Reference
You could not disabuse them that you were actually trying to be fair. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 21, 2005] Reference
They should disabuse their minds of this error before they start from home. From Wordnik.com. [Minnesota; Its Character and Climate Likewise Sketches of Other Resorts Favorable to Invalids; Together With Copious Notes on Health; Also Hints to Tourists and Emigrants.] Reference
Or we can disabuse ourselves of any responsibility, just to say "I told you so.". From Wordnik.com. [Erich Pica: Climate Ostriches: Why Russia's and Pakistan's Extreme Weather Is About to Become the Norm] Reference
Force and coercion are often required to disabuse such a group of its delusions. From Wordnik.com. [Terrorists and Freedom Fighters] Reference
Let us disabuse ourselves of the idea that these are the easiest books to write. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 28, February, 1860] Reference
FLEISCHER: Number one, let me disabuse you of the misnomer of shadow government. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 5, 2002] Reference
If you're thinking of unwinding at night, your security adviser will disabuse you. From Wordnik.com. [The World's Most Dangerous Place] Reference
But I want to disabuse anyone of the notion that it's just kind of random selection. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 9, 2002] Reference
High prices will disabuse people from being gas guzzlers that they've been in the past. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 7, 2008] Reference
According to organizers, cultural exchanges work to disabuse both sides of false impressions. From Wordnik.com. [Philip Smucker: Getting to Know My (Br)other: U.S. Exchanges Build Trust] Reference
I wish to disabuse your minds of the statements made by your honorable chairman through an error. From Wordnik.com. [Trees, Fruits and Flowers of Minnesota, 1916 Embracing the Transactions of the Minnesota State Horticultural Society,Volume 44, from December 1, 1915, to December 1, 1916, Including the Twelve Numbers of "The Minnesota Horticulturist" for 1916] Reference
They have been used to disabuse me of my own Muslim identity, by so many fellow Muslims in the past. From Wordnik.com. [Parvez Sharma: America's Imam and His Problematic Mosque: A Muslim Viewpoint] Reference
GERAGOS: He could file a lawsuit, not against Cynthia or Barbara, and I disabuse anybody of that notion. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 21, 2001] Reference
Both endeavored to disabuse their sensitive, fearful son of what they saw as his superstitious tendencies. From Wordnik.com. ["William Golding: The Man Who Wrote 'Lord of the Flies'," by John Carey] Reference
We must disabuse our minds of all ideas of tall masts straining under a weight of canvas, sail above sail. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the Barbary Corsairs] Reference
It has taken less than a month of Clinton's presidency to disabuse all parties of this convenient illusion. From Wordnik.com. [Europe To Clinton: A Wary Welcome] Reference
GERAGOS: Well, I hate to disabuse anybody of what the judge tells you, that you're not supposed to discuss it. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 20, 2002] Reference
If you have any serious notion of being a detective, the best thing for you to do is disabuse your mind of the idea. From Wordnik.com. [Golden Days for Boys and Girls Volume XIII, No. 51: November 12, 1892] Reference
I have attempted to disabuse you of that notion, but you would not read what I put down in my communications, evidently. From Wordnik.com. [Anything You Can Do ...] Reference
And certainly, on the domestic front, I think he has to disabuse people of the notion that he's the president of the rich. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 29, 2002] Reference
Hama is eager to disabuse her audience — Japanese students and visiting American journalists — of hoary domestic myths. From Wordnik.com. [If Paul Krugman Were Japanese] Reference
KERREY: You've used the phrase a number of times, and I'm hoping with my question to disabuse you of using it in the future. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 8, 2004] Reference
He knew that she remembered now, perfectly well, and that nothing could disabuse her mind of the determination it had reached. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman at Bay Or, a Fiend in Skirts] Reference
Go back and labor as industriously to disabuse the minds of your constituencies as you labored to mislead and impose upon them. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States] Reference
Can you disabuse us of any notion that we might have that he's calibrating his position on these issues for political purposes?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 15, 2007] Reference
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