Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a perplexing manner; in such a way as to perplex or embarrass; bewilderingly.
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- adverb In a way or to an extent that is
perplexing
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Examples
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Huffington Post says we "perplexingly" depict Sotomayor in an Asian manner-apparently not entirely getting the
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Published on the same day as my own Wall Street Journal article on American Indian installations at several museums including Brooklyn, Johnson's critique seemed to me so perplexingly off-kilter that I felt the need to present an alternate view.
Lee Rosenbaum: Native Americans, Brooklyn-Style: Family-Friendly, Deeply Informative "Tipi" Show Lee Rosenbaum 2011
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THE GIRLS - This term is female retaliation, a smack down at men who, quite perplexingly name their male organs.
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I will argue with you that movie reviews are generally equally useful, but perplexingly taken more to be gospel than game or music reviews.
Tunes For Thought SVGL 2009
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More perplexingly, there is an entire chapter on what the book calls "the prison of keeping it real," or the idea that black individuals constantly—and to their own detriment—measure themselves against standards of racial authenticity set by others.
The State Of Race Thomas Chatterton Williams 2011
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Published on the same day as my own Wall Street Journal article on American Indian installations at several museums including Brooklyn, Johnson's critique seemed to me so perplexingly off-kilter that I felt the need to present an alternate view.
Lee Rosenbaum: Native Americans, Brooklyn-Style: Family-Friendly, Deeply Informative "Tipi" Show Lee Rosenbaum 2011
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• Sad news from Upper Bucklebury, childhood home of ma'am-to-be Kate Middleton: the minibus tours of the village and surroundings, taking in, among other formative locations, the church where she was baptised, the car park of her alma mater Marlborough, the Spar corner shop and, perplexingly, Stonehenge, have been cancelled.
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Published on the same day as my own Wall Street Journal article on American Indian installations at several museums including Brooklyn, Johnson's critique seemed to me so perplexingly off-kilter that I felt the need to present an alternate view.
Lee Rosenbaum: Native Americans, Brooklyn-Style: Family-Friendly, Deeply Informative "Tipi" Show Lee Rosenbaum 2011
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Their halting conversations and touchingly described moments of connection turn into all-out confessionals and then – perplexingly for the narrator – gaping disconnection.
Not the Booker prize: The Canal by Lee Rourke Sam Jordison 2010
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Published on the same day as my own Wall Street Journal article on American Indian installations at several museums including Brooklyn, Johnson's critique seemed to me so perplexingly off-kilter that I felt the need to present an alternate view.
Lee Rosenbaum: Native Americans, Brooklyn-Style: Family-Friendly, Deeply Informative "Tipi" Show Lee Rosenbaum 2011
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