What is "confusing"

Usage examples of "confusing".

In 1811 Avogadro, in answer to the confusing problems of combining chemical weights, invented the molecule.

It was a great confusing huddle of men, and the ball was no bigger than a walnut, so the spectators could hardly tell what was happening until a ballcarrier broke free to run.

If all four boards took different routes to the river, and all of them dropped their trackers in different places, the Specials were going to have a confusing night.

The broader, ubiquitous problem is one of confusing the metaphysical assumptions of scientific materialism with the empirical knowledge of science.

I had to know As fast as I could with sheets of rain confusing my fingers, I dialed the number for Essential Shotokan.

The gulls still filled the sky with their screams, the air still smelted of salty wind and privet and escallonia, and the narrow lanes of the old town, mazelike, were as confusing as they had ever been.

The three Baudelaires huddled together for the rest of the night, getting what sleep they could on a filthy floor with a cold wind blowing through their inappropriate home, and in the morning, after a breakfast of leftover fruit salad, they walked to the completed half of Heimlich Hospital and carefully walked down all those stairs, past the intercom speakers and the confusing maps.

Like a familiar painting, inexpertly recreated from a new and confusing angle.

The orders from Sheridan and Grant and Meade had come in a confusing stream, the lines of communication tangled in the web of Federal command, the structure clouded by divided authority.

Some folk thought that fauns and nymphs were empty-headed creatures, incapable of feeling or commitment, but those folk were confusing types.

For a moment Lucinda could make nothing of it, so ornamental were the flourishes of the lettering, so confusing the paraphs and curlicues.

Threading quickly through a confusing maze of tents and flickering campfires, Picardy was acutely aware of the curious stares that traced her steps.

Also his name kept confusing me, for I mixed him up with an old ruffian of a Portugee I once knew at Beira.

That change in topography also meant that the cutting became shallow as the railbed rose toward an embankment, while the existence of a deep spoil pit behind the line only made the defense line even more confusing.

From the point of view of the rurales who thought they were holding Valdez overnight in a safe place, the festivities seemed even more confusing.