muddlement
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In the '20s a group of Oxford poets, sparked by W. H. Auden, and including MacNeice, Stephen Spender and C. Day Lewis, staged a revolt against current English linguistic muddlement.
From Time Magazine Archive
Much of the muddlement of U.S. farm policies, argues Higbee, results from statistical fallacies.
From Time Magazine Archive
What rescues the book from total muddlement is his ironic conception of the intellectual liberal as "the man who lived backward."
From Time Magazine Archive
The doctrine compels him to no such muddlement.
From The French Revolution by Belloc, Hilaire
Impossible to conceive two less dashing champions for a threatened race; and there is no doubt they were reduced to the extremity of muddlement and childish fear.
From A Footnote to History Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa by Stevenson, Robert Louis
