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  • adverb In a confounding way.

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Examples

  • How we got to this confoundingly complex point in gender relations is actually quite simple.

    Emily Bracken: Romantic Comedies Are Dying Because Romance Is Dead Emily Bracken 2011

  • It would be confoundingly tacky if a talking horse was able to wrangle all of Alan Harper's commitment issues with women while staving off countless hours of glue jokes and rekindling a strictly sexual relationship with a now septuagenarian Secretariat.

    Hulu.com: Retaining the Sheen: The Worst Possible Two and a Half Men Replacements Hulu.com 2011

  • Despite her cheerful insistence that she's in a "really good place in my life," after several drinks it becomes clear that she's miserable, resentful and chronically, confoundingly, unfairly alone.

    Somewhere between settled and unsettling Ann Hornaday 2011

  • It would be confoundingly tacky if a talking horse was able to wrangle all of Alan Harper's commitment issues with women while staving off countless hours of glue jokes and rekindling a strictly sexual relationship with a now septuagenarian Secretariat.

    Hulu.com: Retaining the Sheen: The Worst Possible Two and a Half Men Replacements Hulu.com 2011

  • But it's a confoundingly original -- and often funny -- nightmare, a one-of-a-kind "found object" that captures an underbelly of America you never dreamed existed -- or exists only in the fevered imagination of its creator.

    Splendors and Challenges at the New York Film Festival 2010

  • When I found myself faced yet again with the same questions that are, confoundingly, personal and impersonal simultaneously I had to bite my cheek sometimes to keep myself from screaming.

    Falling Apart in One Piece Stacy Morrison 2010

  • Even a visit from Washington by Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood was a confoundingly news-free event.

    2010 Detroit Auto Show: Attendance off with sales 2010

  • When I found myself faced yet again with the same questions that are, confoundingly, personal and impersonal simultaneously I had to bite my cheek sometimes to keep myself from screaming.

    Falling Apart in One Piece Stacy Morrison 2010

  • But it's a confoundingly original -- and often funny -- nightmare, a one-of-a-kind "found object" that captures an underbelly of America you never dreamed existed -- or exists only in the fevered imagination of its creator.

    Erica Abeel: Splendors and Challenges at the New York Film Festival 2010

  • Most of Batuman's chapters describe some bizarre trek she gruelingly undertook (easily financed by gullible graduate funders), yet she confoundingly, incongruously speaks against this very form of research early in the book, thus, nothing or everything adding up in the end:

    The Possessed : Academics Going to the Trades Alexandra Juhasz 2010

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