befuddled
adjective
be·fud·dled
bi-ˈfə-dᵊld 
bē-
: utterly confused or puzzled : deeply perplexed
… somebody may be so befuddled and self-destructive as to miss the point entirely.—
Anne B. Fisher
Anne B. FisherI just asked her to please talk to my agent, who understood what was going on, not me. … frankly, I didn't know what to do, or whomto believe. I was totally befuddled.—John Nichols
John NicholsExamples of befuddled in a Sentence
the perennially befuddled professor was always forgetting where she'd left her glasses
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To my right, a man in a tracksuit looked befuddled.
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Sarah Larson, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
The show provided a side of the singer few had seen — a bit doddering, sometimes befuddled and the source of the series’ comedy.
—Denise Petski, Deadline, 5 Sep. 2025
When Anthropic secretly added additional weekly usage limits to Claude Code, power users were left befuddled, claiming the company’s calculation of usage was inaccurate.
—Rashi Shrivastava, Forbes.com, 5 Aug. 2025
An approach shot on 12 left him befuddled, holding out his hands in disbelief at the ball sank into the rough short of the green.
—Kyle Feldscher, CNN Money, 15 June 2025
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“Befuddled.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/befuddled. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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