confounding
adjective
perplexing or bewildering.
confoundingly
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a word derived from
confounding.
Example Sentences
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Because her oeuvre is both so vivid and confoundingly strange, the interpretive frame proposed by the curators often feels frustratingly timid.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 1, 2025
In some scenes, the spirit is a poltergeist nuisance, spilling glasses and knocking down shelves; in others, it’s confoundingly trapped behind some sort of plasma screen.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 23, 2025
And the condition manifests in confoundingly different ways.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 16, 2023
In Marsala, I went back for seconds then thirds of Ristorante I Bucanieri's eggplant parm, trying to unriddle its confoundingly luxe texture.
From Salon ● Jul. 31, 2023
Fancy began to clear away the breakfast things, much troubled, sorely perplexed, alive to her finger-tips with the dismal consciousness that life had become suddenly confoundingly difficult.
From The Soul of Susan Yellam by Horace Annesley Vachell
