puzzled

CEFRB2

/ˈpʌ.zl̩d/

adjective

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Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

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The problem puzzled the public.
[W]hen the day of the departure came, between her two customs of laughing and crying, Miss Sedley was greatly puzzled how to act.
They diſentangle from the puzzled ſkein / In vvhich obſcurity has vvrapp'd them up, / The threads of politic and ſhrevvd deſign / That ran through all his purpoſes, […]

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They diſentangle from the puzzled ſkein / In vvhich obſcurity has vvrapp'd them up, / The threads of politic and ſhrevvd deſign / That ran through all his purpoſes, […]
1785, William Cowper, “Book III. The Garden.”, in The Task, a Poem, […], London: […] J[oseph] Johnson; […], →OCLC, page 98
[W]hen the day of the departure came, between her two customs of laughing and crying, Miss Sedley was greatly puzzled how to act.
1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter XI, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC
Once or twice he scratched his head, and stared out of the window with a puzzled frown. And each time, after a brief survey of the other side of Half Moon Street, he turned back again to the breakfast table with a grin.
1920, Herman Cyril McNeile, chapter 1, in Bulldog Drummond
They could not, it was said, keep Scandinavian bogies and the Scriptures separate in their puzzled brains.
1936, J. R. R. Tolkien, Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics, Norwood, Pa.: Norwood Editions, published 1976, page 17

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