Is Christopher Nolan's Inception a masterpiece, drivel, too confusing?
If Hugh Jackman is totally heterosexual, his mode is a confusing—and not in a good, rad way—butch-camp.
If someone were to stop us, then it would be easy for us to overwhelm them with confusing conceptual jargon.
That this kind of episode was The Newsroom finale was…confusing.
Kinbote says Professor Pardon is “‘confusing me with some refugee from Nova Zembla’ [sarcastically stressing the ‘Nova’].”
To shift the point of view of the action is confusing to the child's mind.
It is a case of the common error of confusing cause and consequence.
It was about three o'clock in the afternoon, and the streets of the enticing and confusing city were crowded.
Infinite harm has been done by confusing the religion of science with the science of religion.
I should think it would be confusing to dwell by a river that runs first one way and then the other, and then vanishes altogether.
1550s, in literal sense "mix or mingle things so as to render the elements indistinguishable;" attested from mid-18c. in active, figurative sense of "discomfit in mind or feeling;" not in general use until 19c., taking over senses formerly belonging to confound, dumbfound, flabbergast etc. The past participle confused (q.v.) is attested much earlier (serving as an alternative past tense to confound), and the verb here might be a back-formation from it. Related: Confusing.
