What is "bewilderment"

Usage examples of "bewilderment".

The Basha listened at first with a look of bewilderment, and some half-dozen armed attendants at the farther end of the room shuffled about in their consternation.

The gangster looked at Durgan in utter bewilderment - too surprised to speak.

Mardi Gras - the French Quarter - a masked girl - an ebony box - all formed a linking chain in a brain that was coming back from bewilderment.

Judging by the looks of shock and bewilderment and revulsion I saw, I might as well have been pissing on the ornamental lawn which fringed the koi pond.

This maneuver on the part of Cleggett and his marines and infantrymen seemed still more to excite the curiosity and contribute to the bewilderment of Loge and his ruffians.

Oliver looked from Moppet to Betty, in bewilderment then back at his prisoner, who seemed the most unconcerned of the group.

Genie out, and presently the look of her, as she sat on the sand, in ravenous bewilderment of what to eat first, brought back poignantly to him the starvation days of his earlier experience.

She heard him croak and Ratbag, mad with fear and bewilderment, came out from under the sink in a whirl of legs and rocketed out of the door.

He turned in his bewilderment to the assembly of the clannsmen, but when the vote was taken here his sholders slumped in disbelief.

Pulou was sitting cross-legged beside him, gazing out on the skyscape with his head cocked in bewilderment.

Also I felt an undeniable attraction to this male that caused me only annoyance and bewilderment.

His voice rose almost to a scream, and Barnacle, with a last look of terror and bewilderment, fled.

Still a little confused by memories and a sense of loss, Merlin looked up at the youth in near bewilderment.

He paused, hesitating a moment, as Minks, listening in some bewilderment, gazed into his eager face.

I felt nothing, only an overbearing sorrow and bewilderment I could not analyze or explain to myself.