confounded
Example Sentences
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“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.
Even after Blanc arrives, he’s confounded to find himself occasionally standing on the sidelines, a bystander in Jud’s moral crusade to herd his congregation toward righteousness.
From Los Angeles Times
Set in Maycomb, it sees two siblings, clearly Lee and her older sister Alice, confounded by her sister's black gardener Arthur, who's from the North but has apparently decided to work in the segregationist South.
From BBC
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