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- adverb In a way or to an extent that
befuddles
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Examples
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Most of the movie is devoted to the Essex Rebellion against the queen, and the action hops back and forth in time so befuddlingly, with the same set of characters played by different actors, that I defy anyone who isn't a scholar of the period to understand what's going on.
'Like Crazy': From Cupid's Blunders, Wonders Joe Morgenstern 2011
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Jamie Lynn Spears, the 16-year-old sister of everyone's favourite befuddlingly clueless vagina model Britney Spears, has announced to the world that she's pregnant.
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The baby, just 6 lbs 11 oz at birth, would grow into a soft-spoken political heavyweight, since 2001 the MP for the befuddlingly named constituency of West Bromwich East.
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The baby, just 6 lbs 11 oz at birth, would grow into a soft-spoken political heavyweight, since 2001 the MP for the befuddlingly named constituency of West Bromwich East.
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I suppose it’s at least a sign we’re not regressing — it would look suspicious if, for instance, last year’s Art Basel showcased no more women than the Whitney’s permanent collection — but it’s otherwise a befuddlingly unhelpful juxtaposition, especially for a reader who doesn’t have an immediate association (with the relevant context) for all of these institutions.
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Before Stavros, Lindsay dated Wilmer Valderrama, the That ’70s Show sidekick and befuddlingly successful swordsman who went on Howard Stern and spoke in graphic detail about his exploits with former girlfriends Mandy Moore, Jennifer Love Hewitt, and Lindsay.
Nancy Jo Sales on Tabloid Boys Sales, Nancy Jo 2007
hernesheir commented on the word befuddlingly
"A typical example of this kind of thinking can be found in a little book written by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., called, befuddlingly enough since he is admittedly of the left, The Vital Center. Clarence Buford Carson, 1963, The Fateful Turn: from Individual Liberty to Collectivism, 1880-1960, Foundation for Economic Education, p. 164.
March 2, 2011