单词 | puzzlingly |
释义 | > as lemmasˈpuzzlingly ˈpuzzlingly adv. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > testing > resolving of problem, solution > [adverb] > with difficulty puzzlinglya1847 a1847 G. Aguilar Vale of Cedars (1851) xix. 136 From the assertion that she did hear a slight sound, though puzzlingly cross-questioned, she never wavered. 1881 M. A. Lewis Two Pretty Girls III. 87 A puzzlingly unamiable trait in her friend's character. 1944 Jrnl. Hist. Ideas 5 215 This proposition is, indeed, somewhat puzzlingly expressed. 1969 Soviet Stud. 21 99 The interpretation of the recent past (recent in the memory of the aging but puzzlingly remote to those born after 1945). 2006 Daily Tel. (Austral.) (Nexis) 13 June 20 Saying something is ‘asymmetric warfare’ is so bewilderingly inexplicable, so puzzlingly obtuse. < as lemmas |
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