baffling
/ (ˈbæflɪŋ) /
impossible to understand; perplexing; bewildering; puzzling
Derived forms of baffling
- bafflingly, adverb
Words Nearby baffling
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How to use baffling in a sentence
How Ragsdale can live with all this day-in-day-out intensity from strangers is baffling.
Sex, Suicide, and Homework: The Secret World of the Telephone Hotline | Tim Teeman | November 20, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAround my own friends, someone will wind up a conversation with a shrug and a baffling—to me—utterance of “Haters gonna hate.”
This is the baffling, awkward dichotomy that is MTV in 2014.
Butts, ‘Bang Bang’ & Beyoncé: The Craziest MTV Video Music Awards Moments | Kevin Fallon | August 25, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTWhen he chooses to cap a climactic chase seen with yet another baffling fall, we feel cheated.
They have also been baffling, alternating between high hope and disappointment.
Progressive-palooza: On Obama, Occupy, and Moral Monday | Jedediah Purdy | July 5, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
At eight o'clock the wind fell to a calm and was afterwards baffling and light from north to east and south-east.
During one year I succeeded in baffling all the activity of the French police, and of our own spies.
The Life of Mazzini | Bolton KingAn indecisive action took place in which, owing to baffling calms, only the British van was engaged.
The Political History of England - Vol. X. | William HuntBrazzier was a man of tigerish temper, and he became infuriated in a few seconds at this repeated baffling of his purpose.
Adrift on the Pacific | Edward S. EllisThus was lost almost his last chance of retaining his crown, and baffling the designs of his enemies.
Witch, Warlock, and Magician | William Henry Davenport Adams
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