confoundingly
- a word derived from confounding.
Example Sentences
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The frantic warnings of a Cosmic Weatherman go unheard as winter, confoundingly, follows spring, and summer arrives as a double cataclysm of fire and floods.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 22, 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
In response to a $104 million budget hole and waning enrollment, Seattle Public Schools has, confoundingly, made little effort to burnish its standout gems and entice families back.
From Seattle Times • May 17, 2024
And the condition manifests in confoundingly different ways.
From Scientific American • Aug. 16, 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 Vachell, Horace Annesley
