[
UK
/bɪmjˈuːsmənt/
]
[ US /ˈbɛmjusmənt/ ]
[ US /ˈbɛmjusmənt/ ]
NOUN
- confusion resulting from failure to understand
How To Use bemusement In A Sentence
- While Mona stares uncomfortably into the horse's eye, Tamsin regards her with poised bemusement.
- “Why wouldn’t it be?” he said, his expression morphing into bemusement. Nevermore
- Evidence of this came two years ago when, to some bemusement, property prices began to play catch-up with less traumatised parts of the county.
- He was also Carl Crook, an Anglo-Canadian teenager, and the middle aged businessman he has become – still living in China – looks back on his tumultuous youth now with an air of vague bemusement.
- I particularly loved the businessman washing his hands and shaking his head in bemusement at the sticker in the mirror. Friday memes and random thoughts
- Imitating their elders on such occasions, they stuffed themselves with a lot of food and drink, and roared with merriment to the bemusement of all the diners around.
- I watched with bemusement as he dummied and juggled with the ball. Times, Sunday Times
- All of these things cause my brain befuddlement, bemusement and general confusion.
- He vacillates between childlike bemusement and childlike trepidation.
- The former England manager divides opinions in his homeland but the predominant emotions were sympathy and a degree of bemusement. Times, Sunday Times