bewilderment
Example Sentences
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If Grace was staring down her holiday meal with equal parts courage and bewilderment, surely others were too.
From Salon
They were stand-ins for mid-1940s moviegoers; more to the point, mirrors, reflecting the full range of audience reactions—love, respect, bewilderment, compassion, impatience, contempt—to the battered men recently restored to their midst.
Elsewhere in the crowd, bewilderment laced with anger when families who had been informed that their loved ones would be released discovered they weren’t on the buses after all.
From Los Angeles Times
At the end, there seemed to be bewilderment among the masses of Hampden, a dazed feeling about how to react to what they'd just witnessed.
From BBC
The habit is a source of curiosity and bewilderment inside the fitness community and beyond.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
