All 11 Uses of
perplex
in
The House of Mirth
- If she had appeared to be catching a train, he might have inferred that he had come on her in the act of transition between one and another of the country-houses which disputed her presence after the close of the Newport season; but her desultory air perplexed him.†
Chpt 1.1
- She leaned forward with a shade of perplexity in her charming eyes.†
Chpt 1.1 *
- Lily looked at her perplexedly.†
Chpt 1.9
- To Lily this attitude was the most ominous, because the most perplexing, element in the situation.†
Chpt 2.3
- He did not, as yet, see clearly just what course she was likely to take, but his perplexity increased his apprehension, and with it the sense that, before leaving, he must speak again with Miss Bart.†
Chpt 2.3
- Miss Farish paused with a sigh which reflected the perplexity of her departing visitor.†
Chpt 2.8
- Selden, for his life, could not keep a note of dryness out of his voice; but he met Gerty's look of perplexity by saying more mildly: "But, though you immensely exaggerate the importance of anything I could do for Miss Bart, you can't exaggerate my readiness to do it—if you ask me to."†
Chpt 2.8
- The performance of specific duties would have simplified Miss Bart's position; but the vague attendance on Mrs. Hatch was not without its perplexities.†
Chpt 2.9
- It was not her employer who created these perplexities.†
Chpt 2.9
- The strength was more and more needed as the perplexities of her future increased.†
Chpt 2.10
- Whatever perplexity he felt as to the inexorableness of her course—however little he penetrated its motive—she saw that it unmistakably tended to strengthen her hold over him.†
Chpt 2.11
Definition:
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(perplex) to confuse