mixed-up
- s perplexed by many conflicting situations or statements; filled with bewilderment
just a mixed-up kid
- Teddy never mentioned Alice's deceased mother, a behavior Alice grew to describe as "dreadfully Victorian and mixed-up.
- Now that we've done births, how long will it be before some stressed-out, mixed-up adolescent makes the ultimate cry for help by killing himself on the Web before a mass audience .
- The absence of a sustained narrative and the mixed-up chronology demand a slow, close reading.