Thesaurus / perplexity

perplexity

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Perhaps the best illustration of the perplexities involved in studying vitamin D in athletes comes from a two-part Bangor University study from 2018.

The Company is in complete shock and perplexity to the news.

Davy read this over two or three times, in the greatest perplexity, and then gave it up in despair.

Miss Anne smiled kindly, not dreaming of his perplexity, amused by his Southern warmth.

For he knew that her suffering and her deep perplexity were somewhere, somehow almost equal to his own.

THE WAVEALGERNON BLACKWOOD

But before he had been in San Pasquale an hour, he was plunged into a perplexity and disappointment deeper than he had yet felt.

RAMONAHELEN HUNT JACKSON

When, in reply to his questions in regard to Alessandro's wife, Felipe heard her spoken of as "Majella," his perplexity deepened.

RAMONAHELEN HUNT JACKSON

It was a curious moment, charged with a subtle perplexity of emotions none of them quite understood.

THE WAVEALGERNON BLACKWOOD

With a flush mounting to his cheeks, and his brows drawn together in perplexity, Garnache surveyed him.

A cool head, his; never a cooler brought thought to bear upon perplexity; nevertheless it was not feeling very collected now.

ELSTER'S FOLLYMRS. HENRY WOOD

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