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Puzzlement   /pˈəzəlmənt/   Listen
noun
Puzzlement  n.  The state of being puzzled; perplexity.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Puzzlement" Quotes from Famous Books



... Shearson, with such a shaken flabbiness of vehemence that both Hal and Ellis laughed, though the former felt an uneasy puzzlement. ...
— The Clarion • Samuel Hopkins Adams

... the speaker's surprise, there followed an interval of silence, and his puzzlement showed in the knitting of his brows. "You have the letters, haven't you?" ...
— Within the Law - From the Play of Bayard Veiller • Marvin Dana

... been markedly listless, heavy-eyed and abstracted during the course of the dinner, a point which Larssen had noted with some puzzlement. His mind had worked over the reasons for it without arriving at any definite conclusion. But now, at this unexpected announcement, her eyes ...
— Swirling Waters • Max Rittenberg

... puzzlement at the variety of ways electronic publishing has been viewed. Much of what has been discussed throughout these two days has concerned CD-ROM publishing, whereas in the on-line environment that she confronts, the constraints and ...
— LOC WORKSHOP ON ELECTRONIC TEXTS • James Daly

... her fingers. Her expression and attitude were slightly puzzled—a puzzlement that was either spontaneous or singularly well assumed. As their hands touched she ...
— The Masquerader • Katherine Cecil Thurston


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