What is "puzzlement"

Usage examples of "puzzlement".

The elder Verne looked up at his son, bushy eyebrows knit in puzzlement, though Jules knew he was aware of the situation.

It was in this moment of puzzlement that Killer Durgan chanced to see the form of Cliff Marsland.

Though it was a puzzlement to him how the daughter of a drifter and a grifter executed a one-eighty to become a small-town homebody, the fact that puzzles were his business made it, and her, only more interesting.

But at the last moment, he pulled back and simply gazed into her eyes, a slight frown of puzzlement puckering his brow.

Daish Reik had spread his broad, thick-fingered hands tn apparent puzzlement.

He had one nanosecond of puzzlement as to why one of his own crew was lifting a saffer at him.

His companion, similarly unaccoutred, was looking at him with a mixture of admiration and puzzlement.

They had met occasionally, and Delmont, coming suddenly from his puzzlement, began a withery smile of greeting.

His voice was blurry with the drug and with a childlike weepy puzzlement, as though he suspected Mace might break his favorite toy.

I auscultated the chest and palpated the abdomen with growing puzzlement.

Then noticing my puzzlement, Proxenus volunteered further information on this mysterious character.

And I do confess I am loath to throw my money in with this new Bank, and my lot in with this Juncto, when our money is to be recoined by a savant whose ideas are recondite, and whose motives are a source of endless puzzlement to me.

They made off, the girls looking back now and then and staring at Spinney, their eyes screwed up, some with spite, others with puzzlement.

Such profligacy was unlike Stivers, she thought with faint puzzlement as, treading warily, she began to ascend the steps.

Despite the good-natured puzzlement of Chief Engineer Azleya, Sulu had never allowed her to refine the inertial dampers to the point where they rendered such adjustments completely unnoticeable.