All 9 Uses of
perplex
in
David Copperfield
- Recalled by his request, preferred in quite another tone of voice, I did the honours of the shaving-pot; but I did them with an unsteadiness of hand, a sudden sense of being no match for him, and a perplexed suspicious anxiety as to what he might be going to say next, which I felt could not escape his observation.†
Chpt 25-27perplexed = confused or puzzled
- 'It certainly is not the fact,' said I, perplexed, 'that I am accountable for Steerforth's having been away from home longer than usual — if he has been: which I really don't know at this moment, unless I understand it from you.†
Chpt 28-30
- I bought an approved scheme of the noble art and mystery of stenography (which cost me ten and sixpence); and plunged into a sea of perplexity that brought me, in a few weeks, to the confines of distraction.†
Chpt 37-39 *perplexity = confusion due to complexity
- I put it down, to think about it; and took it up again, to read it once more; and was still pursuing it, when Traddles found me in the height of my perplexity.†
Chpt 49-51
- To a man who is struggling with a complicated burden of perplexity and disquiet, such a reception is trying, I assure you.'†
Chpt 49-51
- 'And Mrs. Gummidge?' said I. 'Well, I've had a mort of consideration, I do tell you,' returned Mr. Peggotty, with a perplexed look which gradually cleared as he went on, 'concerning of Missis Gummidge.†
Chpt 49-51perplexed = confused or puzzled
- '"First,"' said Mr. Micawber, '"When Mr. W.'s faculties and memory for business became, through causes into which it is not necessary or expedient for me to enter, weakened and confused, — HEEP designedly perplexed and complicated the whole of the official transactions.†
Chpt 52-54
- 'I can't account for more than five,' said Traddles, with an air of perplexity.†
Chpt 52-54perplexity = confusion due to complexity
- These, with their perplexities and inconsistencies, were the shifting quicksands of my mind, from the time of my departure to the time of my return home, three years afterwards.†
Chpt 58-60perplexities = things that confuse
Definition:
to confuse