confounded
Example Sentences
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Just like Mr. Pinkerton had warned me—and I knew from Aunt Kitty’s confounded vocabulary drills—I could put the whole case in jeopardy.
From Literature
Her disappearance captivated and confounded true crime watchers around the nation as FBI investigators and armchair detectives alike tried to solve the puzzle of what happened to Melodee.
From Los Angeles Times
“Medicine Show” was a record that either confounded or delighted fans of “alternative music” back in the early ’80s.
From Salon
That may, of course, be Mr. Joseph’s point: We are as confounded by the tortuous vagaries of their painful histories, and by their stubborn inability to connect, as they themselves are.
The arrest of Brian Cole Jr., 30, of Woodbridge, Va., is the first time the Justice Department named a suspect in the long-running investigation into the devices, which confounded investigators for years.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
