What is "befuddlement"

Usage examples of "befuddlement".

He turned then and noticed the open door he obviously had, in his befuddlement, neglected to close, let alone lock, the private idiocies, discomfitures of these last few hours on public exhibit for hallway creeps dragging their fungoid flesh to and from the reeking stall opposite the stairwell, how acute his embarrassment had his faculties been intact, when would this life ever mend?

They knew the situation, and after a few moments of initial befuddlement nobody had to ask what was going on.

The upyr gasped in shock and stared down at his chest, human in his befuddlement and pain.

I came not to bandy bright phrases all evening but to banish a little lonely befuddlement by talking a while.

Rich in history, owned by Frenchmen and Spaniards in their turn, it had never lost its traditions, even to its maintenance of a legal code that was nearly incomprehensible to the other forty-nine states, and was often a matter of some befuddlement to federal authorities.