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bemused

adjective as in absent-minded

adjective as in confused

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Example Sentences

A bemused line reading sneaks in when you are anticipating a hammy hard sell.

But the prevailing emotion that day, even among us awardees, was a bemused sense of boredom, restlessness and insatiability.

Some folks watch Bieber's challenges with bemused interest, others with disgust, and others with genuine concern.

Messina would introduce himself to bemused staffers and ask them to visit his office for a second or two.

Bemused, two journalists behind me wondered aloud “what this guy is doing here.”

The truth is, I have a little lost my way, and stand bemused at the cross-roads.

But his trembling nervous fingers and bemused eyes could make nothing of the "case" thus so suddenly brought before him.

After a time I exchanged it for one of the volumes of sermons, only to be equally bemused.

She led him, unresisting but bemused, towards the gate, and into a confectioner's.

Harky pondered a question that has bemused all great philosophers: how can humans be so foolish?

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On this page you'll find 39 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to bemused, such as: distracted, absent, absorbed, abstracted, engrossed, and lost.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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