disabuse

he quickly disabused me of my fanciful notions.

I must disabuse you of your feelings of grandeur.

If you think I’m going to lend you money, I must disabuse you of te wrong idea.

I would like to disabuse your mind of the idea that your cousin has a feeling of hostility to you. On the contrary he spoke to me in the most friendly terms of you.

It's time to disabuse him of the notion that he is the best player on the team.

She had to disabuse her friend of the idea that all politicians are corrupt.

I had to disabuse him of the belief that success comes without hard work.

It's important to disabuse children of the notion that violence is an acceptable solution to problems.

She tried to disabuse him of the idea that money can buy happiness.

The teacher had to disabuse the student of the misconception that the Earth is flat.

He needed to disabuse himself of the notion that success is solely based on luck.

It's time to disabuse people of the myth that vaccines cause autism.

She had to disabuse her parents of the idea that she would follow in their footsteps.

The coach needed to disabuse the team of the belief that talent alone leads to victory.

Thank you for disabusing me of this superstition.

The old ape thought that they were searching for a tribe of his own kind, nor did the boy disabuse his mind of this belief.

He did nothing to disabuse that notion because it added to his back story and made him more attractive to visiting consultants and women, Mr. Caputo said.

I can see the solicitor glancing from him to me in an apprehension of which I did my best to disabuse him by reassuring looks.

It is of this fallacy that it is most difficult to disabuse men's minds. It comes from believing that the owner of wealth desires a capital-asset as such, whereas what he really desires is its prospective yield.

In the first ages, it was a work of long time;months, sometimes years, were devoted to the arduous task of disabusing the mind of the incipient Christian of its pagan errors, and of molding it upon the Christian faith.