What's the difference between befuddlingly and puzzlingly?
Befuddlingly
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Most are befuddled tourists who have no idea what is going on!
(2) 1) Brilliance of Barcelona shows up the Premier League When performing as they did in the first half Barcelona are dazzling – their control, passing and movement befuddled Manchester City .
(3) Donald Trump is technology's befuddled (but dangerous) grandfather Read more “So it could be somebody else.
(4) "I like your watch," he says while I gibber into his big, beautiful, travel-befuddled face.
(5) Lastly, after an affectedly befuddled defense of NSA metadata mining as “hugely important” and victim of a “debate [that] has gotten off track”, Jeb boldly reiterated the Reagan line of “peace through strength”.
(6) The pilots of his plane were befuddled by thick fog as they attempted to land, and crashed into a forest adjoining Smolensk’s airfield.
(7) The housing benefit system is so complicated, and people get so befuddled by what’s happening to them, and then they end up in court,” Smith says.
(8) He didn't really do anything but his presence befuddled Sakho, who just stood there and allowed the ball to bounce off his thigh and back to Oscar.
(9) The following Sunday, I was still befuddled with the Saturday drink – and in danger of dodging mass again.
(10) Who knew that the Rolling Stones, perhaps still befuddled by the recent events at Altamont, booked him to play at their 1969 Christmas party?
(11) Privately, [pollsters] are terrified and befuddled,” said one senior industry figure.
(12) As people will, they were quick to point to the weakness in the Genius system: if you start with a Beatles track, then the Genius is befuddled.
(13) Labour politicians talked about being “stunned” and “befuddled”, and of “a cold bitter morning”.
(14) But if Snoke was to announce himself – Benedict Cumberbatch style – as Darth Plagueis in Episode VIII, the supposed big reveal would be met with choruses of befuddlement in cinemas across the globe.
(15) June 6, 2014 3.54am BST Heat 67-69 Spurs, 3:53 remaining, third quarter Hahaha, alright Ginobili just took advantage of a massive Heat defensive lapse, hitting a layout in front of some befuddled Heat defenders.
(16) Like all self-respecting pagan gods, Gaiman's deities enjoy the human befuddlement that they cause.
(17) 11.02pm BST Sam Stein (@samsteinhp) What's befuddling is that there wasn't a single event or moment that flipped the momentum of gun policy reform.
(18) The Kings won again, this time 3-0 in regulation to take a similarly daunting 3-0 lead in the series, but it was the way in which they did it that could leave one still befuddled.
(19) With all due respect to the Baltimore Ravens , this Super Bowl's legacy will be the moment when the year's most expensive television program was caught looking as unprepared and befuddled as the most low budgeted local broadcast.
(20) The worst someone can say is that I am some befuddled old guy who doesn’t have a clue.” The Guardian view on giving ministers a free vote on Europe | Editorial Read more Rose headed Marks & Spencer, the biggest clothing retailer on the high street, between 2004 and 2010.
Puzzlingly
Definition:
(adv.) In a puzzling manner.
Example Sentences:
(1) More evil than Clocky , the alarm clock that rolls away when you reach out to silence it, or the Puzzle Alarm , which makes you complete a simple puzzle before it'll go quiet, the Money Shredding Alarm Clock methodically destroys your cash unless you rouse yourself.
(2) Our data and the model developed to interpret them in terms of fluctuations provide an explanation of the puzzling sharp reduction of water order near the chain-ordering phase transition.
(3) And David Ngog was a pointless signing too – one which puzzled us all.
(4) That's so far from how my mind works that I find it puzzling.
(5) This latest one continued developer Revolution Software’s run, sending you on the hunt for a stolen painting with puzzles and a well-worked storyline to hold your attention.
(6) Unexplained physical distress, when associated with alexithymia, becomes a diagnostic puzzle leading to prolonged investigation, ineffective treatment, and psychiatric referral.
(7) This scheme is used to rationalize previously puzzling data about the enzyme mechanism.
(8) With wearable computing just around the corner cracking integration with you, and indeed the organic-body, is critical for Apple and a final piece in the puzzle.
(9) Leanne Bowden, a mother of three on her way home on the school run, looks puzzled by the inquiry.
(10) The treatment of obesity remains a puzzling challenge because long-term maintenance of weight loss--one of the most suitable goals--is rarely achieved with conventional methods.
(11) It includes a reference to Banks's puzzling repeated insistence in media interviews that he "did not come up the river in a cabbage boat".
(12) In his letter responding to the resignation, the prime minister calls himself “puzzled and disappointed”.
(13) A persistent puzzle in our understanding of hemostasis has been the absence of hemorrhagic symptoms in the majority of patients with Hageman trait, the hereditary deficiency of Hageman factor (factor XII).
(14) "What was popular then was the puzzle: such qualities as psychological truth or even atmospheric location were secondary to it.
(15) A more pronounced decrease was produced by subjects working on puzzles than those working on mental calculation and by subjects working on easy tasks than those working on difficult tasks when the easy preceded the difficult ones.
(16) "We find it puzzling that the Department of Health would want a group that is opposed to abortion and provides no sexual health services on its sexual health forum."
(17) This MA lag of at least 2 years is consistent with the MA lag previously found on strategic games and puzzles.
(18) The boys attempted to solve two different sets of 10 find-a-word puzzles, one set following exposure to solvable puzzles, and one set following exposure to insolvable puzzles.
(19) That’s where blaming government failure fits into his ideological jigsaw puzzle.
(20) Some hypotheses about the cause of schizophrenia are based on the puzzling tendency for mental illness to affect the same sex when two close relatives become psychiatrically ill. Sex-concordance rates were examined in 71 schizophrenic probands, who had at least one first-degree relative suffering from the same disorder, in order to test this tendency in a population of recently admitted patients.