confusingly

American  

[kuhn-fyooz-ing-lee] / kənˈfyuz ɪŋ li /

adverb

1. in a way that causes or tends to cause confusion

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Example Sentences

When she did, she announced - confusingly - that Luther Vandross had won, seemingly from beyond the grave.

From BBC

The lawsuit said the filing of applications showed the property owner was pursuing a “confusingly similar” name and that infringement on the Mercados’ business was thus “willful, deliberate, and malicious.”

From Los Angeles Times

To save face with her fellow pensioners, Mrs. Palfrey passes off a struggling writer she meets on the street as her grandson, only to draw confusingly close to him.

From The Wall Street Journal

Collecting in a wide range of styles still continues, including non-Jewish artists along with what a label calls—weirdly and confusingly, given the museum’s Judaic focus—“historically marginalized voices.”

From The Wall Street Journal

Lee’s decision forbids OpenAI and its “officers, directors and employees from using the mark ‘Cameo,’ or any other mark that includes or is confusingly similar to ‘Cameo,’ ” according to her order.

From Los Angeles Times