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• v  be a mystery or bewildering to
• v  make more complicated
• s  lacking clarity of meaning; causing confusion or perplexity
  perplexing to someone who knew nothing about it

• I think, for them, hearing that initial, unvarnished no is as perplexing as encountering an American child who is not excited at the prospect of going to Disneyland.
• The most famous feline to express this perplexing relationship between man and pet is Garfield, a comic-strip cat.
• He is smiling gently because for him, the most perplexing and troubling questions we all face every day have already been answered.

• perplex
• vex
• stick
• get
• puzzle
• mystify
• baffle
• beat
• pose
• bewilder
• flummox
• stupefy
• nonplus
• gravel
• amaze
• dumbfound
• complicate
• confusing
• puzzling

• simplify

News & Articles

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• Strop hit hard in Orioles' 9-5 loss to Angels
  The perplexing struggle of Pedro Strop goes on, the Baltimore Orioles can only hope the problem will soon be corrected.
  June 12, 2013 - Seattle Times
• Yes, Mothers Can Be Traders
  According to Paul Tudor Jones , the billionaire hedge fund manager, they cannot . We find this statement both disturbing and perplexing since we are women whose life experience would suggest otherwise, and we spend much of our time encouraging young women to pursue careers in finance generally and trading in particular.
  June 10, 2013 - Business Insider
• Controversy over efforts to solve bee deaths
  One of every three bites of food we consume depends on pollination by honeybees, but these overlooked contributors to our food system are continuing to die in stubbornly perplexing ways.
  June 10, 2013 - Waynesville Daily Guide

Quotes

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• Rex Tillerson in USA Today
  What I find perplexing is why people feel threatened because we want to have a discussion,Tillerson said when offering an explanation for why the company funds some groups that are skeptical of the mainstream scientific views of climate change.
• Timothy Keating in Guardian Unlimited
  This is perplexing. It's not helpful,Adm. Timothy Keating, commander of US Pacific Command, told reporters in a videoteleconference from his headquarters at Camp Smith, Hawaii.
• Heston Blumenthal in Digital Spy
  Blumenthal said he was baffled by what had happened, adding: "The whole thing is really upsetting and perplexing. We have done so many tests but nothing has shown up."