confound

To her, Maggie’s willingness to be seen as a victim is confounding.

It’s stiff karaoke that earns a confounded polite clap.

The first is Olympian, polymathic, erudite, antically funny, often beautiful, at times gross, at others incredibly romantic, never afraid to challenge or even confound, and unmistakably worked at.

The album is also a recognition that while heartbreak has confounded poets since the beginning of time, it remains an unknown.

The paradox, revealed in a study of the country's latest cancer registry, tells a story at once simple and confounding.