bemused
adjective
bewildered or confused.
bemusedly
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a word derived from
bemused.
Example Sentences
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It triggered a tense argument between Cavett and Maddox that ended with the governor storming off the set while Brown sat back and bemusedly watched the fireworks he had set off.
From Washington Times ● May 20, 2023
The biggest laughs come from a scene where Kenan Thompson, playing a bewildered veterinarian, bemusedly attempts to examine the prodigious pooch.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 9, 2021
Harris won a Tony Award — her fifth — for a performance that Kerr called a “generous, spiny, proud, bemusedly defiant, subtly yielding evocation of Emily Dickinson’s mornings, twilights, and sometimes busy midnights.”
From Washington Post ● Dec. 11, 2019
“I’ve done some unusual things, but not necessarily horror,” she said bemusedly, sneaking Diet Coke into her teacup over high tea in West Hollywood.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2018
He was relaxing too, growing woozy; he cut the engine and senled back, eyes almost bemusedly on the silvered, shadow-casting landscape below.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
