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bewilderedly en · ADV

Etymology

From bewildered + -ly.

Meanings

1. In a bewildered manner; with puzzlement.
   • He said good night and left her wondering bewilderedly what strange thing her dad would do next. 1917, B. M. Bower, chapter 2, in Starr, of the Desert:
   • But Lend-Lease generosity made Franklin Roosevelt so popular with the dictators that, when Wendell Willkie ran against him, a nephew of Carias Andino asked bewilderedly: "Why doesn't Roosevelt have him shot?" 1944 December 25, “America: Pattern of Revolution”, in Time:
   • Once, this neo-Gothic landmark in Chelsea was the Church of the Holy Communion. . . . A decade later, it was Limelight, the nightclub-slash-den of depravity. . . . Today that fabled nightclub is a mall. . . . Entering by a side door, one young woman patently ignorant of the place’s tainted past, glanced around bewilderedly. “I thought that this was a house of God,” she murmured. 2010 May 19, Ruth La Ferla, “Where God and the Devil Once Lived”, in New York Times, retrieved 30 Jul 2011:
   • Carlen was crying bitterly; the letter was just ended, when Alf came into the room asking bewilderedly what it was all about. 1888, Helen Hunt Jackson, “The Mystery of Wilhelm Rütte”, in Between Whiles:

Forms

Relateds

bewilder · bewilderment

Synonyms

confusedly