perplexedly

American  

[per-pleks-id-lee] / pərˈplɛks ɪd li /

adverb

1. in a perplexed manner.

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Example Sentences

Inside the Pantages’ Art Deco lobby, theatergoers milled as chaotically, boisterously and perplexedly as they are wont to do.

From Los Angeles Times

He seems to know things about strangers he meets and, most perplexedly, Lewis believes he knows the terrible secrets she has been hiding.

From Washington Post

While physicists in the middle decades of the twentieth-century were looking perplexedly into the world of the very small, astronomers were finding no less arresting an incompleteness of understanding in the universe at large.

From Literature

Instead, as she perplexedly moved the animal to different water tanks and watched its unaffected side change shape and color quite normally, the papillae stayed up.

From New York Times

I remember fondly and a little perplexedly the Banana Republic that was on the immediate left of the entrance to the Pier 17 mall at South Street Seaport when it opened in 1985.

From New York Times