muddle
verb (used with object)
to mix up in a confused or bungling manner; jumble.
muddlement
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a word derived from
muddle.
Example Sentences
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What rescues the book from total muddlement is his ironic conception of the intellectual liberal as "the man who lived backward."
From Time Magazine Archive
Much of the muddlement of U.S. farm policies, argues Higbee, results from statistical fallacies.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the '20s a group of Oxford poets, sparked by W. H. Auden, and including MacNeice, Stephen Spender and C. Day Lewis, staged a revolt against current English linguistic muddlement.
From Time Magazine Archive
He learned to know all their strange and naïve humours, their ignorance and muddlement.
From Platform Monologues by T. G. (Thomas George) Tucker
I forget. edward. You can't forget. mr. voysey. Well . . pretty bad. edward. Do you know how it was my grandfather began to— mr. voysey. Muddlement, muddlement!
From Three Plays by Granville-Barker The Marrying of Ann Leete; The Voysey Inheritance; Waste by Harley Granville-Barker
