What is "confusingly"

Usage examples of "confusingly".

In some cities there are also Psychedelics Anonymous, Nicotine Anonymous (also, confusingly, called NA), De signer Drugs Anonymous, Steroids Anonymous, even (especially in and around Manhat tan) something called Prozac Anonymous.

Bert Smallways lived confusingly wonderful, there was none quite so strange, so headlong and disturbing, so noisy and persuasive and dangerous, as the modernisations of patriotism produced by imperial and international politics.

The latest one was a particularly daunting project‌—a bewildering landscape reproduction of a small lugger with a grey-blue sail, adrift on blue-grey water, the skies blue-grey above, the cliffs grey-blue behind, all the similar shades running confusingly into one another.

The erratic movements of the Machine were causing the point of light to waltz crazily about us, casting black shadows confusingly over the dials.

Someday he, too, is going to be a lobster, swimming around and waving his pincers in a cyberspace so confusingly elaborate that his uploaded identity is cryptozoic: a living fossil from the depths of geological time, when mass was dumb and space was unstructured.

Harry refers confusingly to things happening "today," "yesterday," "last night.

Shona, having been trained to be a PE teacher in the Dunfermline College of Physical Education {located confusingly but cannily not in Dunfermline but across the river near Edinburgh).

Those future systems may well vary among themselves as confusingly as the Euboic and Aeginetic standards did.

They roamed the lower decks, padding down miles of carpeted corridors and metal-floor passages, looking at empty rooms, empty storage areas, and rooms filled with confusingly noisy machinery until Tremaine's feet were ready to fall off.

In 1921, while working for the General Motors Research Corporation in Dayton, Ohio, he investigated a compound called tetraethyl lead (also known, confusingly, as lead tetraethyl), and discovered that it significantly reduced the juddering condition known as engine knock.