perplexed

be perplexed for an answer

a perplexed state of mind

He perplexed me with this problem.

I am perplexed to know what to do.

she was perplexed by her husband's moodiness.

to disembroil a subject that seems to have perplexed even Antiquity.

Gary looked rather perplexed.

The professor is never at a nonplus, and never perplexed by a problem.

He was still more perplexed, for this inconsequent smile made nothing clear.

The farmer felt the cow,went away,returned,sorely perplexed,always afraid of being cheated.

It perplexed her mother and caused her teacher to think I was a militarist at a time when virulent antimilitarism was de rigueur.

This problem has perplexed physicists for decades.

Her attitude towards him at first perplexed me.

" I am thoroughly perplexed, " she said candidly.

Meanwhile a perplexed nation continues to wait.

She couldn't read. It perplexed her.

" Dumbledore's reading what signs? " said Ron, looking perplexed.

At first, Gawain was perplexed by these strange terms.

They were obviously very perplexed to find me here.

" Did he break up with you? " Charlie was perplexed.

The fox seemed perplexed, and very curious. " On another planet? "