English

Adverb

bewilderedly ‎(comparative more bewilderedly, superlative most bewilderedly)

1. In a bewildered manner; with puzzlement.
   • 1888, Helen Hunt Jackson, "The Mystery of Wilhelm Rütte" in Between Whiles:

     Carlen was crying bitterly; the letter was just ended, when Alf came into the room asking bewilderedly what it was all about.

   • 1917, B. M. Bower, Starr, of the Desert, ch. 2:

     He said good night and left her wondering bewilderedly what strange thing her dad would do next.

   • 1944 Dec. 25, "America: Pattern of Revolution," Time:

     But Lend-Lease generosity made Franklin Roosevelt so popular with the dictators that, when Wendell Willkie ran against him, a nephew of Carias Andino asked bewilderedly: "Why doesn't Roosevelt have him shot?"

   • 2010 May 19, Ruth La Ferla, "Where God and the Devil Once Lived," New York Times (retrieved 30 July 2011):

     Once, this neo-Gothic landmark in Chelsea was the Church of the Holy Communion. . . . A decade later, it was Limelight, the nightclub-slash-den of depravity. . . . Today that fabled nightclub is a mall. . . . Entering by a side door, one young woman patently ignorant of the place’s tainted past, glanced around bewilderedly. “I thought that this was a house of God,” she murmured.

Synonyms

• confusedly

Related terms

• bewilder
• bewilderment