puzzlement

[ US /ˈpəzəɫmənt/ ]
[ UK /pˈʌzə‍lmənt/ ]
NOUN
  1. confusion resulting from failure to understand
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How To Use puzzlement In A Sentence

  • No one can make up their minds what to do, and then when they finally do, they end up backtracking, retracing their steps, and returning to the scene of the previous puzzlement to more or less complete the vacuous cycle.
  • Kirk watched his friend's expression mutate from puzzlement to annoyance to amazement. Dreams of the Raven
  • This women's protest was received with expressions of outrage and puzzlement by men within the dominant political culture.
  • Something of my puzzlement must've shown on my face.
  • My surprise and puzzlement grew after I read the following passage.
  • His brow furrowed in puzzlement.
  • The diary contains plenty of small puzzlements.
  • The delays seem to have been caused partly by American puzzlement at Tintin.
  • ‘There was considerable readerly puzzlement’, as Lawrence Jones puts it in his introduction.
  • It's as warm as thick porridge, but with enough pace and puzzlement to grip. Times, Sunday Times
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