puzzled
Speech parts
1. puzzled - Adjective
2. puzzled - Verb
4. puzzled - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
of Puzzle
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Examples
Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with the most virulent, scurrilous, wall-to-wall character assassination of nearly every political practitioner in the country - and then declares itself puzzled that America has lost trust in its politicians.
Though I was satisfied that I was on the verge of perhaps a magnificent find, probably one of the missing tombs that I had been seeking for many years, I was much puzzled by the smallness of the opening in comparison with those of other royal tombs in the valley.
Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.
Notice this rent in my garment; I am at a loss to explain its presence! I am even more puzzled by the existence of the universe.
You must always be puzzled by mental illness. The thing I would dread most, if I became mentally ill, would be your adopting a common sense attitude; that you could take it for granted that I was deluded.
Where was I going? I puzzled and wondered about it til I actually enjoyed the puzzlement and wondering.