confusedly

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Videos captured people murmuring confusedly, presuming technical difficulties, before the truth dawned on the crowd that pyrotechnics would not be forthcoming.

From Salon • Jan. 21, 2026

The Times reviewed “UHF” back in the day, with the critic writing, “As an actor, Yankovic alternates between screaming and staring confusedly into space.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 18, 2022

The day before the Dear Woman event Mary's neighbours are giving their six-day-old baby girl a bath in a plastic tub on the porch - cooing to the infant who squints back confusedly.

From BBC • Sep. 27, 2021

“Bonjour Tristesse” works in part, Rappaport argues, because as a confusedly dissolute teenager vacationing in the South of France, Seberg was playing a character close to her own age and situation.

From New York Times • Feb. 19, 2020

She lay quiet with her eyes just a tiny bit open, staring confusedly at the soft flames that occasionally flickered up among the coals that glowed in the fire pit.

From "The Birchbark House" by Louise Erdrich