muddlement

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In the '20s a group of Oxford poets, sparked by W. H. Auden, and including MacNeice, Stephen Spender and C. Day Lewis, staged a revolt against current English linguistic muddlement.

From Time Magazine Archive

Wells called it the "silliest movie" and a mix of "almost every possible foolishness, clich�, platitude, and muddlement about mechanical progress and progress in general."

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What rescues the book from total muddlement is his ironic conception of the intellectual liberal as "the man who lived backward."

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Much of the muddlement of U.S. farm policies, argues Higbee, results from statistical fallacies.

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The doctrine compels him to no such muddlement.

From The French Revolution by Belloc, Hilaire