How To Use Confusingly In A Sentence
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(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
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Mahonias are a plant that with fatsia, camellia, skimmia, chaenomeles and aralia are sometimes and rather confusingly called a 'japonica'.
Times, Sunday Times
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Confusingly, the Spanish for the sweet potato is batata and the Italian patata.
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And of course it is, by more than 300 charities that often overlap confusingly.
Times, Sunday Times
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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.
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Though confusingly three different and variously incompatible recordable DVD formats are created resulting in some unnecessary duplication of effort, zounds!
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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.
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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
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In Kirsty Gunn's second novel, Featherstone, we find ourselves confusingly but fittingly connected with characters disassociating themselves with creeping abandon.
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Confusingly, the original source of the word was the Greek bombux, ‘silkworm ‘, from which we also get bombazine.’
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Specifically, although the CF confusingly uses the C2 designation for our Leos, the tanks we currently operate are Leopard 1's, not Leopard 2's the C2 is a Leo 1.
Archive 2007-04-01
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The Greeks did enjoy making acrostics, but that's a different kind of wordplay (despite the fact that the Times confusingly calls word squares ‘acrostic squares’).
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Especially on UNIX and LINUX systems, there are command-line client programs for the ftp protocols, which, confusingly, are named "telnet" and "ftp" commands.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
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When two vowels snuggle together confusingly, a clarifying separation is indicated by the dieresis over the second vowel; in naïve, the two dots tell you to pronounce the word “nah-YEEV,” not “knave” or “knive.”
The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time
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The state-rights crowd - confusingly called federalists - supposedly have a lot of resentment towards Washington and don't want power concentrated there.
Yikes
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Also, as Richard Quinn is rather confusingly monikered T Quinn and Frankie Dettori is known as L Dettori, so Wilson Renwick is down on the racecard as K Renwick.
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Mahonias are a plant that with fatsia, camellia, skimmia, chaenomeles and aralia are sometimes and rather confusingly called a 'japonica'.
Times, Sunday Times
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Acer negundo, known confusingly as the box elder, has three free-floating leaflets too.
Times, Sunday Times
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Mahonias are a plant that with fatsia, camellia, skimmia, chaenomeles and aralia are sometimes and rather confusingly called a 'japonica'.
Times, Sunday Times
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Confusingly (and indecisively), he isn't taking a stand on Amendment 62.
Colin St. John: The Importance of Being Michael Bennet
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According to the White Paper, a Tory government would scrap this third wing of the tri-partite system - passing many of its functions over the the Bank of England, and putting in its place a new, beefed-up Consumer Protection Agency, which would "take responsibilities to protect the consumer that are currently and confusingly divided between the FSA and Office of Fair Trading".
Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me
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We've decided to work in those delicious windows between system crashes and "kernel panics," and managed to turn the beginning of the movie from "draggingly oblique" into "only-slightly-confusingly funny.
11/20/02 A short respite of
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The maps are too few, and are confusingly placed and labelled, which is something you really don't want in a book on military history.
DWCon and disrupted night
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All the mains are served with rice and peas, a Jamaican staple (the rice is cooked in coconut milk with, confusingly, kidney beans), plantain and a basic salad.
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The result is skeptical and non-reductionistic, both good, but confusingly equivocal.
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Even more confusingly, they have a number of brilliant tracks hidden away on soundtracks, rarities comps, and fan club-only releases.
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The whole essay eschews formal analysis and comment, and just kind of grapples with the subject matter; strands of argument not really left dangling as much as intricately (read: confusingly, but coherently) tied in a personal twist.
Menachem Kaiser: How DFW Got Me a C+
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Confusingly, European water-mint p. 404 is also sometimes called bergamot.
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen
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But also, confusingly and faintly disturbingly, a childlike innocence that appeals to us all.
Times, Sunday Times
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Confusingly called an opéra comique because it has spoken dialogue, its subject is tragic.
Top 50 operas
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Confusingly, healthcare professionals sometimes refer to miscarriage as spontaneous abortion.
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In guidelines which stated that minced or diced beef, sliced potato, onion and swede were the only ingredients permitted in the traditional snack, officials were forced to allow the word "turnip" in ingredient lists - though not in the pasties themselves - because the Cornish confusingly use the word to refer to Swedes.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
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Confusingly, the Indonesians call the headscarf a "jilbab"!
Don't Hate Her Because She's Beautiful ... and Wears a ... Tudung
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This is partly because we still think of Tony Blair as the prime minister (and he is often on American television rather pretending he is still prime minister), and yet, confusingly, he isn't running, and partly because his stand-in, Gordon Brown, who is actually the prime minister, is a figure of almost incomprehensible dourness and turgidness.
Michael Wolff: We Don't Care About the British Election--but Some Pointers Anyway
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Confusingly, the literal translation of "skirt" is "falda" which is the name for flank steak.
Choice Cut Or Mystery Meat? A Guide To Mexican Butcher Shops: Part I - Beef
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Mahonias are a plant that with fatsia, camellia, skimmia, chaenomeles and aralia are sometimes and rather confusingly called a 'japonica'.
Times, Sunday Times
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Confusingly, second class mail sent to Bath arrived on Saturday, two days before a first class letter which was posted the same day.
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And so The Last Defender of Camelot is a confusingly overused title if you're a Zelazny collector.
REVIEW: Last Defender of Camelot by Roger Zelazny
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The term peer-review refers to two confusingly related processes.
Measuring Precipitation on Willis' Boots « Climate Audit
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[If this question has to be answered, the IPKat predicts a Delphic response along the lines of "it's up to the referring court to apply its own law to the facts".] (c) in any case, is it necessary that the proprietor of a trade mark should have his trade mark registered before he can begin to "acquiesce" in the use by another of (i) an identical or (ii) a confusingly similar mark?
The IPKat - supporting prudent IP use
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In "Enhancing Government," Erwin Chemerinsky provides a kind of holograph of what federalism -- as the federal-state relation is confusingly called -- would resemble if the U.S. were to enter a period of liberal ascendancy.
One Blueprint For Obama
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Confusingly enough, goitrous individuals were apt to have either of two op-posing sets of symptoms.
The Human Brain
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Make sure you try the laver bread with your full cooked breakfast (confusingly not bread at all - it's a sort of seaweed and oat rissole that is much, much tastier than it sounds).
Archive 2009-09-01
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Confusingly, even after fertilization, the panda is capable of delayed implantation.
The Times Literary Supplement
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And of course it is, by more than 300 charities that often overlap confusingly.
Times, Sunday Times
