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confusingly

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con·fuse  (kn-fyz)
v. con·fused, con·fus·ing, con·fus·es
v.tr.
1.
a. To cause to be unable to think with clarity or act with intelligence or understanding; throw off.
b. To cause to feel embarrassment.
2.
a. To mistake (for another): confused effusiveness with affection.
b. To make opaque; blur: "The old labels ... confuse debate instead of clarifying it" (Christopher Lasch).
c. To assemble without order or sense; jumble.
3. Archaic To bring to ruination.
v.intr.
To make something unclear or incomprehensible: a new tax code that only further confuses.

[Middle English confusen, from Old French confus, perplexed, from Latin cnfsus, past participle of cnfundere, to mix together; see confound.]

con·fusa·ble adj.
con·fusing·ly adv.
Synonyms: confuse, addle, befuddle, discombobulate, fuddle, muddle, throw
These verbs mean to cause to be unclear in mind or intent: heavy traffic that confused the driver; problems that addle my brain; a question that befuddled even the professor; was discombobulated by all of the possibilities; a complex plot line that fuddled my comprehension; a student who was muddled by endless facts and figures; behavior that really threw me.
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Adv.1.confusingly - in a bewildering and confusing manner; "her situation was bewilderingly unclear"
Translations
confusingly [kənˈfjuːzɪŋlɪ] ADV [written, explained] → de manera confusa
confusingly, two of them had the same namepara mayor confusión, dos de ellos tenían el mismo nombre
confusingly
advverwirrend; confusingly, he then contradicted himselfverwirrenderweise widersprach er sich dann


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He heard howls and curses, groans and shrieks, confusingly in chorus as if a battle were raging.
I have remarked you sitting near the door in a room full of company, bent on hearing, not on speaking; on observing, not on entertaining; looking frigidly shy at the commencement of a party, confusingly vigilant about the middle, and insultingly weary towards the end.
Bert Smallways lived confusingly wonderful, there was none quite so strange, so headlong and disturbing, so noisy and persuasive and dangerous, as the modernisations of patriotism produced by imperial and international politics.
 
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