confounded

Close that confounded window.

an invention that confounded the skeptics.

the inflation figure confounded economic analysts.

the rise in prices confounded expectations.

That confounded boy's bad behaviour annoys me.

picayune demands that all but confounded the peace talks.

The extraordinary election results confounded the government.

I've been kept waiting a confounded long time.

A crowd of confounded bystanders stared at the appalling wreckage.

You are confounded at my violence and passion, and I am enraged at your cold insensibility and want of feeling.

The bad election results confounded the previous government leaders.

That same year， maintaining his interest in the literary arts， Yeats confounded the Rhymer's Club with John Rhys.

So this is what we call a " confounded design."

You know those confounded things make me dizzy.

And for some reason, I'm confounded and heated by his steady gaze.

“Oh. I'll bear that in mind, ” I murmur, confounded.

The red planet occasionally appears to be moving backward across the sky. A behavior that confounded observers for centuries.

Here there was a choke that couldn't be controlled, so he decapitated buttercups while he cleared his 'confounded throat'.

" She doesn't care a button for me—with her confounded little dry manner" .

Both rent and profit are, in this case, confounded with wages.

The poor fellow was now completely confounded; he doubted his own identity, and whether he was himself or another man.

But the speed of their evolution has confounded scientists.