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• n  confusion resulting from failure to understand

• I Get Money owes a lot of its appeal to a sample from Audio Two's Top Billin' that's best described as the sound of bad things about to happen, but 50 Cent's bemusement at his .
• Seven years later, Unni recalls the moment with some bemusement.
• With varying degrees of fear, anger and fascination, but mostly with a detached kind of bemusement, the world this week awaits an unprecedented event: the fiery fall of the .

• bewilderment
• obfuscation
• puzzlement
• befuddlement
• mystification
• bafflement

News & Articles

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• Random Thoughts | American Girl sparked pride in girlhood
  When newsroom talk recently turned to the American Girl store opening soon at Easton Town Center, I quickly chimed in with my excitement. My co-workers’ reaction to my excitement, though, was bemusement: “You were a doll girl?”
  June 17, 2013 - The Columbus Dispatch
• MLB suspensions are serious business, but Dodgers get a laugh
  Three players, Manager Don Mattingly and coach Mark McGwire are suspended after brawl, and Arizona pitcher Ian Kennedy gets 10 games. But some of league's actions amuse Dodgers. PITTSBURGH — The Dodgers reacted with bemusement and amusement Friday after Major League Baseball issued eight suspensions to Dodgers and Arizona Diamondbacks personnel for their roles in a violent brawl during the teams ...
  June 15, 2013 - Los Angeles Times

Quotes

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• Martin Cruz Smith in PopMatters
  I'm fascinated by Russia,Smith said, "and I think there is some genuine Russian cast to Arkady, thanks not to me but to the Russians I have known and who look on my endeavors with some bemusement. You say, `Ivan, what do you think of the...
• Hamish Linklater in New York Times
  Karla Peterson of The San Diego Union-Tribune wrote that in tandem with Clark Gregg (as Christine's ex-husband), Mr. Linklater added "a low-key bemusement that throws the standard-issue sitcom rhythms nicely out of whack."
• Bobby Lounge in USA Today
  Such songs express "my bemusement at the world," says Lounge, 58. "When I started writing, I decided it wasn't going to be 'moon,' 'spoon' and 'June.' I've heard all that."