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bemusement

[ UK /bɪmjˈuːsmənt/ ]
[ US /ˈbɛmjusmənt/ ]
NOUN
  1. 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
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