perplexingly
advEtymology From perplexing + -ly.
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In a way or to an extent that is perplexing.
- It was a long time before he could steady his nerves to answer my questions, and then he answered perplexingly and brokenly.1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 83:
- These perplexingly dissimilar objects found their way into her work at different stages in her artistic development.1988 January 22, Holly Greenhagen, “Art Facts: Ellen Lanyon's magic art”, in Chicago Reader: