How To Use Disabused In A Sentence

  • Then one of my favourite professors, a fellow by the name of Austan Goolsbee, disabused me of this notion by asking a simple question: What price will the owner be willing to sell the asset at?
  • It disabused the South African government of any notion that apartheid was selling abroad, and thus that they could shed their pariah status without putting an end to it. The Good Fight
  • He went into private practice "in hopes that I could be an independent Clarence Darrow type," but he "quickly became disabused of the notion that you could ever control your own schedule," let alone do it all pro-bono. Litigating for Liberty
  • I think Secretary Rumsfeld disabused us of that today.
  • And any reader who had imagined that her helter-skelter style was actually the product of careful contrivance will here be disabused.
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  • some people are still not disabused of the old idea that the universe revolves around the Earth
  • If Wright had aspirations to fight in one of the war's main theaters after enlisting with the Sixth Iowa Cavalry Regiment, he was quickly disabused of the idea.
  • Most people wouldn't DEMAND to know someone's politics or candidate they voted for under the same rules you purport to apply to religious persons, so that they could be 'disabused' of their personal views and choices. [unpopular opinions] cost many readers
  • Of course, once I started doing the job I was quickly disabused of any romantic ideas I had about it.
  • Dr. Griffin himself made the amazingly wrong claim that there was not enough Xenon in the world to support large scale solar electric propulsion when a simple phone call to one of the manufacturers would have disabused him of that mistaken notion. NASA Faces Tough Choices & Needs an Administrator Now - NASA Watch
  • And therein lies the issue, I suspect: they are not really sure they want to, because they are not comfortable with the idea of being disabused of numbskull nitwittery they've had hard-coded into their brains for so long. Top Obama Labor Supporter Warns Race Remains Volatile, Says Voters Lack Clear Sense Of Obama
  • But the first people that approached me they had produced the popular documentary Murderball about quadriplegic athletes who play wheelchair rugby quickly disabused me of that notion. Welcome to My World
  • The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan disabused us of this notion. The President's Risky Defense Strategy
  • Well, I'm pretty sure the people of Haditha have been "disabused" of that notion. Archive 2006-06-01
  • However, I can quite categorically say that spending three months drinking myself into a stupor in South East Asia last year has disabused me of the notion that doing nothing makes me feel bad.
  • If Mussolini retained some lingering hopes in 1919 of founding an alternative socialism rather than an antisocialism, he was soon disabused of those notions by observing what worked and what didn't work in Italian politics. UUpdates - All updates
  • It was the kind of yapping she associated with a terrier in need of discipline, and she wasn't disabused of this notion when four different locks were released and the opening door allowed a Jack Russell to charge forward, intent upon her ankles. With No One as Witness
  • I used to believe in meld until people disabused me of the notion. The Volokh Conspiracy » To Meld — What Does “Meld” Mean?
  • Professor Hart disabused me of my addled adolescent liberalism and smugness over the four years I was his student as an undergraduate.
  • Two days after our return to Trinidad, a triumphant call disabused me of any idea of his suffering.
  • And any reader who had imagined that her helter-skelter style was actually the product of careful contrivance will here be disabused.
  • 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
  • He had thought that he was good enough to become a professional stage designer, and Dinah had disabused him.

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