perplexedly
Americanadverb
Example Sentences
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Inside the Pantages’ Art Deco lobby, theatergoers milled as chaotically, boisterously and perplexedly as they are wont to do.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 27, 2021
The man scratched his head perplexedly and looked a few feet up the hill at the manzanita bush that marked approximately the apex of the “V.”
From Slate • Nov. 25, 2018
She stood by as Alberto Cortes, a performance artist, stared at her photos perplexedly.
From New York Times • Jan. 16, 2013
Hardy’s spirit hovers — perhaps somewhat perplexedly, but who knows? — over this movie.
From New York Times • Oct. 7, 2010
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 "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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