confoundedly
Americanadverb
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in a way or to a degree that is frustrating or maddening; damnably (used as a mild expletive).
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in a thoroughly confused way.
Example Sentences
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Ms. Howe began blogging in 2010, albeit somewhat confoundedly.
From New York Times • Sep. 13, 2020
Rating: ***1/2 Following last year’s confoundedly popular “Valentine’s Day,” the director’s even lamer “New Year’s Eve” stitches together a “Love Boat”-style array of slumming stars and striving B-listers in transparent quick-buck fashion.
From BusinessWeek • Dec. 8, 2011
“What he does in Africa on account of women,” the prospective plaintiff tells her lawyers, confoundedly, “and then he does this.”
From New York Times • May 18, 2011
For dying is a confoundedly serious thing, one shouldn't make a melodrama of it.
From Time Magazine Archive
At the club he would play euchre instead of whist; and if there was any other even more confoundedly modern and vulgar game, he would play that.
From Horace Chase by Woolson, Constance Fenimore
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