befuddling

To abandon its botanical identity is a befuddling way to discourage consumption and is likely to reduce the credibility of the guidelines.

Just as befuddling, Mulkey sidestepped the issue Friday, refusing to address the story she created.

Which made Friday’s result — a blowout loss to a team that had been battling its own adversity for two months — all the more befuddling.

Occasionally an unfamiliar formal park will appear - other times a befuddling array of fancy dress costumes.

But the inability to get the ball into the end zone with any regularity has been befuddling.