bafflement

[ UK /bˈæfə‍lmənt/ ]
NOUN
  1. confusion resulting from failure to understand
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How To Use bafflement In A Sentence

  • Without faith of some sort, life is a constant bafflement, apparently devoid of any detectable meaning.
  • Most slang terms for other nations result from bafflement and disdain over different culinary habits. Times, Sunday Times
  • We express bafflement with raised eyebrows. Times, Sunday Times
  • They had come away admitting utter bafflement. PHYLLOXERA: How Wine was Saved for the World
  • This stylistic donnybrook - one of hip-hop's most distinctive - has been met with equal parts approbation and bafflement.
  • The general response was one of understandable bafflement.
  • Most slang terms for other nations result from bafflement and disdain over different culinary habits. Times, Sunday Times
  • Over a large gin and tonic, he veers between amused bafflement at all the fuss and genuine hurt that he has been cast as a monster. Times, Sunday Times
  • The garage said nobody had been hurt but expressed bafflement at his actions, which caused more than 20,000 worth of damage. Times, Sunday Times
  • The stupid lowly, and the humble lowly, only, went down on its knees at the penitent form, admitted its pathological weight and hurt of sin, eliminated and purged all its bafflements, and walked forth again upright under the sun, child-like and pure, upborne by Abel Ah Yo's god's arm around it. WHEN ALICE TOLD HER SOUL
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