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Nonplused

adjective
1.
Filled with bewilderment.  Synonyms: at a loss, nonplussed, puzzled.  "Puzzled that she left without saying goodbye"





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"Nonplused" Quotes from Famous Books



... When the nonplused and disconcerted Chandler left the Court House, he rapidly took his way back to his quarters, from which he had been started out by Patterson and Gale, to see if he might not be able to accomplish by fair words what they had failed ...
— The Rangers - [Subtitle: The Tory's Daughter] • D. P. Thompson
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... household of the Shellingtons had turned into a gloomy abode. Ann was nonplused at the strange behavior of her brother and the unusual reserve of Flea. Floyd from his bedroom endeavored to bring the home to its former cheerfulness; but, with all Ann's energies and the boy's tireless tact, the change did not come. At length ...
— From the Valley of the Missing • Grace Miller White
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... "Flum, somewhat nonplused, allowed a smile of endurance to invade his broad inexpressive face, and rejoined with what he was pleased to consider very nice wit. 'If Citizen Peabody,' said he, 'be not an independent democrat I am exceedingly sorry for it—nothing more being required to make him a perfect man!' ...
— The Adventures of My Cousin Smooth • Timothy Templeton
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Words linked to "Nonplused" :   perplexed


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