nonplus
Example Sentences
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He found cross-examinations mentally invigorating, soon learned that he could nonplus storming attorneys if he kept smiling no matter how galling their insinuations.
From Time Magazine Archive
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In short, it might nonplus a Person of the nicest Taste, to distinguish or determine, whether the Neatness of their Cells within, or the beauteous Varieties without, most exhaust his Admiration.
From Military Memoirs of Capt. George Carleton by Defoe, Daniel
He wanted to nonplus and disconcert her, if such a thing were possible.
From The Dark House by Wylie, I. A. R. (Ida Alexa Ross)
The scholars were cogent reasoners, and a show of staves soon brought their opponents to a nonplus.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 1 by Runkle, Lucia Isabella Gilbert
They were put to a nonplus, and summoned the Devil to their relief.
From A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I by Smith, David Eugene
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.