confusingly
Adverb
Meaning
in a bewildering and confusing manner
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Holden couldn't tell if she was melancholy or solving a complex engineering problem in her head. Those looks were confusingly similar.
her situation was bewilderingly unclear
After quitting work, Deckard is pulled back in after being notified of a new lead and experiencing a vision of the prophet-like Mercer confusingly telling him to proceed though his mission is immoral.
Halmos rather confusingly uses the term "Borel set" for elements of the σ-ring generated by compact sets, and defines Haar measure on these sets.
In 1548 the title was finally fixed to Stadtpfleger, who officiated for several years and was then awarded the title for life (though no longer governing), thus resulting confusingly, in records of two or more simultaneous Stadtpfleger.
In particular, since Knuth highly values the reproducibility of the output of all versions of TeX, any changed version must not be called TeX, or anything confusingly similar.