How To Use Fuddled In A Sentence
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Aficionados of business dinners will know that this wasn't actually spent on the meal (the befuddled restaurateur comped the food) but on the wine, most of which was older than they are.
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The heat had fuddled my brain.
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The new arrival was befuddled by the rapid - fire conversation.
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Any royal guards that came into this place would, of course, stop for a pint, and by the time he'd finished Murphy's ale, he'd be too fuddled to lace his own boots, much less discover the whole world that existed just below the dirty floor.
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Reaching over to put the light on, befuddled and stupid, I saw the dog, trembling and sheepish, dark eyes anxious in the lamplight.
Diary of a separation
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The new arrival was befuddled by the rapid - fire conversation.
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The heat had fuddled my brain.
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My thoughts were fuddled and I thought for a few minutes that my mind was just tired, but in the end I decided it wasn't that I was tired… it was that I wasn't going to fight my thoughts when I knew they weren't lying to me.
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I'm still befuddled by the speed with which these were produced, in a kitchen featuring two gas burners and one ancient electric mixer.
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Avoid this film unless you want to know the befuddled feeling that comes of toking on a bong for a few seconds too long.
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You can't help but be struck by the sheer befuddled babyishness of the apologists.
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I'm half asleep and I have to streak over to the other side of the house to the keypad and when I get there, I'm all fuddled because the alarm is shrieking, and I'm half-asleep, and I'm so confused, and I blank out on the code.
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But I reserve the right to feel that their thinking is fuddled.
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The onlooker finds him or herself standing - intrigued or befuddled, or probably both - amid multivarious narratives.
Times, Sunday Times
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He keeps a clear head whilst she becomes fuddled.
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Riders overtake traffic, carving in and out of lanes as befuddled drivers bond in confusion with pedestrians.
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For the most part, we are benumbed, befuddled or afraid.
Judith Acosta: The Great American Trance
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It befuddled me greatly because I couldn't remember doing anything wrong that night, at least not to him.
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The befuddled silliness might be genuine gold or it might be play-acting.
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He was to do this because his brain not befuddled by panic.
The Sun
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I opened the door and there was no teacher in sight, only several befuddled students.
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The sport of boxing won big time as it again confused and befuddled it's critics.
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This clarified things for the more befuddled viewers but reminded all that they were watching a dead person.
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Something that will let me do a bit of much-needed spring cleaning in my fuddled brain.
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She told me, her eyes widening with the mystery that befuddled me earlier.
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The dynasty is ruled by King Leodan who to all outward appearances is a strong and just king, but behind closed doors is a befuddled “mist” addict.
“Acacia” by David Anthony Durham (Doubleday, 2007) « The BookBanter Blog
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He felt fuddled and wayless, and the track gyred higher and higher.
Cold Mountain
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Brooke glanced around at the girls, whose befuddled faces told her how stupid this must have looked.
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The early C minor quartet has elements of greatness imbued in it but the ideas are slightly fuddled and the composer was to improve quite immeasurably later.
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She dies of a heart attack, he's too befuddled to inform the authorities.
Times, Sunday Times
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I am as befuddled as you are when I try to read that deliberately abstruse text.
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I was a bit fuddled, but it's certainly a very strange album.
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A good many, however, remained behind -- some because they did not like fights, some because they did not believe that the parties were in earnest, others because they were too much taken up with and oppressed by their own sorrows, and a few because, being what is called fuddled, they did not understand or care anything about the matter at all.
Charlie to the Rescue
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Unsteady on their feet, uncoordinated, befuddled and bewildered.
The Sun
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I do have to admit to being a little befuddled by what's going on in terms of the descriptions.
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The befuddled silliness might be genuine gold or it might be play-acting.
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So even shows that I'd made a point to catch have gone by the wayside, and thus I find myself not remembering to catch them even on the rare quiet nights because I've fallen out of the habit, so I wind up utterly befuddled at Peter David's Buffy and Angel recaps... and I'm left feeling kind of resentful that I'm missing it all.
Pen-Elayne on the Web
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For fans too fuddled by technology to get to grips with the membership scheme which allowed free downloads from the French band's website, this will be much more reassuringly old-fashioned.
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He must have been perpetually befuddled and dismayed by his downfall.
Times, Sunday Times
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Fuddled by brandy,[sentence dictionary] her brain fumbled over the events of the night.
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Who knows what little games he played in his mind before it became befuddled by morphine?
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Even then, the details of how I had gone and gotten myself a boyfriend befuddled me.
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He was lucky to be spared a long fuddled decline into the garbage heap.
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I'm so tired, my poor befuddled brain can't absorb any more.
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It clearly left the others, and the jury, amusedly befuddled by her inarticulate sentence fragments, full of sound and fuzzy, but definitely signifying nothing, though it certainly removed any remaining mystery as to why they never bother to give her any airtime.
Tallulah Morehead: Survivor 21: Infants vs Senior Citizens: The Blithering Inferno.
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A very befuddled teenager soon found himself pushed and locked out of the room.
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Too often carers accused of theft claim that their victim was befuddled.
Times, Sunday Times
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I forgot to tell you all this is set in one of my confused and befuddled future settings.
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I called back at the cabbie, who was leaning out his side window, a little befuddled, but even he was smiling some, in his slightly jaded D. C.-cabbie way.
Mary, Mary
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To-night he would birl the bottle with Templandmuir as usual, till the fuddled laird should think himself a fine big fellow as being the intimate of John Gourlay -- and then, sober as a judge himself, he would drive him home in the small hours.
The House with the Green Shutters
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And what better to enliven the befuddled mind than chess?
Times, Sunday Times
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Clearly it exists, but it is befuddled, complex, and we all have a different idea about what it is.
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He is, accordingly, by turns bumptious, diffident, selfish, generous, thoughtless, befuddled and acute.
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Hot, bothered and befuddled, folk started acting very oddly.
Times, Sunday Times
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But a multitudinous number of Alaska Democrats, including me, whose votes may decide the outcome remain flummoxed, befuddled, uncertain.
Donald Craig Mitchell: Daddy's Girl Versus Sarah's Boy: What's an Alaska Democrat to Do?
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The old right-wing nostrums which befuddled public opinion in the 1980s and 1990s no longer have the same impact.
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As one keeps replacing the other, we easily get befuddled ourselves.
Times, Sunday Times
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I was so stunned and momentarily befuddled it never even occurred to me to fire the second barrel.
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Sarah felt something stir within her as she gazed at him, her eyes never leaving his and she was befuddled.
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I'm so tired, my poor befuddled brain can't absorb any more.
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When Miss Fiske wrote to inform me of her condition, I was utterly befuddled.
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Three beer-befuddled construction workers played softball with my head in a backstreet on the mistaken assumption that I was Tom Tunney.
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I was, and am, a rumpish, atrophic female, with a Dr. Demento nimbus of ochre hair and the fuddled, myopic gaze of a small subterranean animal.
LIGHT FINGERS
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Emerging after a bibulous evening, befuddled guests went to recover their coats, only to discover that some of them had ‘walked’.
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At first they glanced at each other, befuddled by the albino girl who stood in nothing but a strapless nightgown.
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This question befuddled even the teacher
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The kid smiled and vanished, leaving a befuddled scientist to wonder if he'd begun hallucinating.
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They thought he was an old has-been, that the fever had fuddled his wits, that his weeks of near-starvation had starved his brain-tissue into comatose stasis.
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At elections, when our minds are fuddled by fudged facts and slanted statistics, we ordinary mugs need merely study the smooth political faces on the television - and sniff.
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Muses that ever fuddled the brain of a garreteer!
Real Life In London, Volumes I. and II. Or, The Rambles And Adventures Of Bob Tallyho, Esq., And His Cousin, The Hon. Tom Dashall, Through The Metropolis; Exhibiting A Living Picture Of Fashionable Characters, Manners, And Amusements In High And Low Life
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He was befuddled as he swilled the tea around in his mug
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Most people were befuddled by or misunderstood Full Metal Jacket and had misapprehended The Shining.
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Tony Hopkins tries out an array of voices and manners - befuddled vagueness, booming ferocity. dangerous, smiling brusqueness.
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It worked at cross-purposes, unable to escape the inference of fuddled human personnel and jerky moving parts.
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a hollow under some buffalo-bushes and slept the loggish sleep of the befuddled.
Johnny Bear And Other Stories from Lives of the Hunted
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A befuddled moment passed before he understood she was referring to his rickety motorcycle and not to their assignment as volunteers.
Heaven Lake
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Of course, one would have to be incredibly naive to think that Palin, at best a befuddled Republican poster child and at worst another establishment neocon, would follow through on her support and back a new 9/11 investigation should John McCain snatch victory from the jaws of defeat and take the White House.
28 « October « 2008 « Niqnaq
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Count me among those befuddled by the apparent widespread confusion between "pseudonymity" and "anonymity".
Pseuds vs anons
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Karl Johnson as an unreliable toper drifts through the action in a befuddled haze.
Noises Off - review
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the wino's poor befuddled mind
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Three beer-befuddled construction workers played softball with my head in a backstreet on the mistaken assumption that I was Tom Tunney.
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Forget the picture of fuddled labourers reeling in fields at harvest time after draughts of the farmer's rudimentary cider.
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When Reagan spoke it sounded as if he "fuddled", a clue not to trust him.
Only The English are British
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Pain, cold, and exhaustion fuddled Sara's mind, but she managed to recall the last thing that had happened.
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New York, of course, befuddled me until I couldn't keep track of my wallet; which contained the greastest collection of gum wrappers, taco bell receipts, ticket stubs, lint bolles, and the et ceteras I had.
Joegood Diary Entry
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The befuddled hosts at first tried to jolly Stewart into being the good-natured guest they'd expected.
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Even then it was hard work, but they kept him befuddled for several days, and finally inveigled him into buying No. 29 for $750.
The Gold Hunters of the North
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The naming conventions of Intel processors has kept me a bit fuddled for the last few years.
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In our early days, my entering classmates were often befuddled by the kind of readings we were given.
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Trouble is, it's a dangerously ambiguous thing to say and Evangelicals who want to be ‘open and affirming’ are fuddled by the inability to distinguish the theology from the therapy.
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When it comes to piecing together a performance, they can, at their worst, resemble a befuddled man confronted by self-assembly furniture.
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Her acting aptly conveys noble spirit and befuddled brain.
Times, Sunday Times
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I stumbled out into the early afternoon with my new machine, enough testing strips and pricking lancets to go on with, my marked-up diary and a fuddled brain.
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I was worried about leaving Rob with them, in case his simple brain was fuddled by their complex arguments of Just Because, All Right?
