mystify

Why Beinart would purposely misrepresent these commonly known facts is mystifying.

False gods, whatever degree of godhead they usurped, had for a time the mystifying power of concealing their falsehood.

It can only mislead and mystify and the greater part of the literature is a mere jumble of inaccurate and mystifying statements.

When she was weary of mystifying foreign statesmen she turned to find fresh sport in mystifying her own ministers.

Hume wished to amuse himself with mystifying his friends about the pamphlet above alluded to, called Sister Peg.

On the whole, the subject of the singer's muscular sensations is usually rather mystifying to the student.