bewildered
Americanadjective
Other Word Forms
- bewilderedly adverb
- bewilderedness noun
- unbewildered adjective
- unbewilderedly adverb
Etymology
Origin of bewildered
Example Sentences
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I drove through the neighborhoods in a daze, bewildered by what I saw.
From Los Angeles Times
It’s more like an existential dilemma, both for our bewildered and benighted country and for the world.
From Salon
It's also about the players he has confused and bewildered with his ill-fitting shape and the ideology he refuses to alter no matter how befuddled things become.
From BBC
Now the leopard is licking their faces, and they are bewildered.
From Salon
Mr. Darnielle lets you in on the joke every time; if you’re bewildered by some of the choices an artist makes, it helps to know that the artist himself often feels the same way.
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