mystify

The whole affair meanwhile has mystified longtime Hill insiders and ethics watchdogs.

He led the way down to the ground floor, while they followed him, mystified, and into the elevator again.

Nevertheless, mystified as he was, he concealed the details of their trip under an evasive answer when he returned to his room.

Liosha, although accepting my apology, had sat mystified; also profoundly disturbed by Jaffery's unconcealed agitation.

The men were mystified, but wine and rhetoric had fired them, and they cheered him—no one knew why.

Then the attacking party, evidently disappointed and mystified, withdrew again into the forest.