The Collaborative International Dictionary
Perplexed \Per*plexed"\, a. Entangled, involved, or confused; hence, embarrassd; puzzled; doubtful; anxious. -- Per*plex"ed*ly, adv. -- Per*plex"ed*ness, n.
Wiktionary
adv. In a confused or puzzled manner.
WordNet
adv. in a perplexed manner; "he looked at his professor perplexedly" [syn: confoundedly]
Usage examples of "perplexedly".
He stopped short, shrugged his shoulders perplexedly, waved his hand, and again began to pace the sidewalk, looking at Foma askance.
And examining the faces of the compositors he saw that they also looked at the orator inquiringly, perplexedly, wearily.
Foma sat all this time in his corner, listening to the conversation between the Mayakins, and, blinking perplexedly, he fixedly examined the newcomer.
Bobrov laughed perplexedly, but his small eyes bored into Foma as gimlets.
He stood frozen to the spot a dozen feet away from the youth, who blinked perplexedly into the light.
Home Secretary perplexedly and with a trace of subconscious hostility.
Her brows tilted perplexedly, accenting the nuance of diablerie, delicate and fascinating, that they cast upon the flower face.
But a new complexion was put upon the matter when to the perplexedly uncondemnatory bench (whereon punic judgeship strove with penal law) the senior king of all, Pegger Festy, as soon as the outer layer of stucckomuck had been removed at the request of a few live jurors, declared in a loudburst of poesy, through his Brythonic interpreter on his oath, mhuith peisth mhuise as fearra bheura muirre hriosmas, whereas take notice be the relics of the bones of the story bouchal that was ate be Cliopatrick (the sow) princess of parked porkers, afore God and all their honours and king's commons that .