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Puzzlement   /pˈəzəlmənt/   Listen
Puzzlement

noun
1.
Confusion resulting from failure to understand.  Synonyms: bafflement, befuddlement, bemusement, bewilderment, mystification, obfuscation.






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"Puzzlement" Quotes from Famous Books



... the meanwhile remained in the same inert position, standing listlessly beside the body of Menecreta, her face expressing puzzlement rather than horror, as if within her soul she was trying to reconcile the events of the last few moments with her previous conceptions of what the tenor of her ...
— "Unto Caesar" • Baroness Emmuska Orczy

... hurrying down to shake hands with Miss Gray. Ruth watched them with some puzzlement of mind. Tom was undoubtedly embarrassed; but the moving picture girl was too used to making an impression upon susceptible minds to be much disturbed by Tom ...
— Ruth Fielding in Moving Pictures - Or Helping The Dormitory Fund • Alice Emerson

... searching his face with the fond puzzlement which her eyes sometimes showed when they rested upon him; then she glanced down the hall toward Fanny's room, and, after another moment of hesitation, came quickly in, and closed ...
— The Magnificent Ambersons • Booth Tarkington

... suppose I'm an incurable romantic. You see, I hate to see you go." Academician Amschel Mayer was a man in early middle years; Dr. Leonid Plekhanov, his contemporary. They offset one another; Mayer thin and high-pitched, his colleague heavy, slow and dour. Now they both showed their puzzlement. ...
— Adaptation • Dallas McCord Reynolds

... the virile love that such as he feel for theirs, watched her vanish amid the throngs. Then, sauntering to the rail, leaned against it.... There came into his eyes a look of abstraction, of aberration, of puzzlement. Blake stood watching him— stood for a long time, silent, unmoving.... At length he moved ...
— A Fool There Was • Porter Emerson Browne

... Rene took it into his head that Mary and the Mere were distinct persons, that Mary was not, could not be, the Virgin, she must be one of the other Marys; so with a little putting together of heads and puzzlement, he and his advisers decided that the two Marys were Mary, the mother of James, and Mary Salome. The next thing to be done was to find their bodies there, but that naturally presented no difficulty. There were bones there—from Pagan times. Since that date a great ...
— In Troubadour-Land - A Ramble in Provence and Languedoc • S. Baring-Gould



Words linked to "Puzzlement" :   mental confusion, muddiness, befuddlement, puzzle, bemusement, disarray, confusion, confusedness



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