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  • verb Alternative form of confusticate: to confuse, confound, perplex; to complicate.
  • verb Common misspelling of confiscate.

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Examples

  • These naysayers are throwing in the GOP fear mongering talking points just to confuscate the issue.

    Dan Seals Press Conference on Fair Pay Ellen Beth Gill 2008

  • Dick, I want you to confuscate a little plan and fly it over over the enemy and spray all them with some crop insecticide, maybe use PCP.

    Cindy Sheehan and our leaders’ poor performance 2005

  • Confuscators, those who confuscate, often toss these knots aside as too Gordian or simplistically slice through them with swords.

    Archive 2004-01-01 2004

  • Since the dawning of the automobile, car manufacturers have long sought to confuscate auto-auto-repair or do-it-yourselfers through making engines unnecessarily complex.

    Archive 2004-01-01 2004

  • Though they grew up witnessing the same movies, records, girls and Daffy Duck cartoons, each interpreted these events in a wholly different manner, initially, to confuscate their parents.

    Archive 2004-01-01 2004

  • Since the dawning of the automobile, car manufacturers have long sought to confuscate auto-auto-repair or do-it-yourselfers through making engines unnecessarily complex.

    CONFUSCATION 2004

  • Though they grew up witnessing the same movies, records, girls and Daffy Duck cartoons, each interpreted these events in a wholly different manner, initially, to confuscate their parents.

    CONFUSCATION 2004

  • Confuscators, those who confuscate, often toss these knots aside as too Gordian or simplistically slice through them with swords.

    CONFUSCATION 2004

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