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UK
/kənfjˈuːzɪŋli/
]
[ US /kənˈfjuzɪŋɫi/ ]
[ US /kənˈfjuzɪŋɫi/ ]
ADVERB
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in a bewildering and confusing manner
her situation was bewilderingly unclear
How To Use confusingly In A Sentence
- (Don't be misled by the expression "multisystem" as its confusingly applied to DVD recorders: they do not convert internally like the old multisystem VCRs did, you would still need an outboard standards box. VideoHelp.com Forum
- Mahonias are a plant that with fatsia, camellia, skimmia, chaenomeles and aralia are sometimes and rather confusingly called a 'japonica'. Times, Sunday Times
- Confusingly, the Spanish for the sweet potato is batata and the Italian patata.
- And of course it is, by more than 300 charities that often overlap confusingly. Times, Sunday Times
- Confusingly, logos and some design signatures - such as the three stripes on Adidas track suits or the Nike swoosh - are protected from copying under trademark statutes.
- Though confusingly three different and variously incompatible recordable DVD formats are created resulting in some unnecessary duplication of effort, zounds!
- Where the movie flops on its back and gasps for air is in its fight sequences, which are so choppily and confusingly staged that I quickly gave up trying to follow 'em.
- There have been numerous such attempts: Peter Ackroyd's The Death of King Arthur is one that's self-confessedly "loose" but confusingly billed on the title-page as a "retelling" – was the editor in? The Death of King Arthur by Peter Ackroyd – review
- In Kirsty Gunn's second novel, Featherstone, we find ourselves confusingly but fittingly connected with characters disassociating themselves with creeping abandon.
- Confusingly, the original source of the word was the Greek bombux, ‘silkworm ‘, from which we also get bombazine.’