All 17 Uses of
perplex
in
Crime and Punishment, by Dostoyevsky
- Raskolnikov did not sit down, but he felt unwilling to leave her, and stood facing her in perplexity.†
Chpt 1.4perplexity = confusion due to complexity
- "Could I have expected to set it all straight and to find a way out by means of Razumihin alone?" he asked himself in perplexity.†
Chpt 1.5
- Suddenly he stopped; a new utterly unexpected and exceedingly simple question perplexed and bitterly confounded him.†
Chpt 2.2perplexed = confused or puzzled
- He vividly recalled those old doubts and perplexities,
Chpt 2.2 *perplexities = things that confuse
- Razumihin said, shaking his head in perplexity.†
Chpt 2.5perplexity = confusion due to complexity
- "What if you have been reading about it?" he cried at last, perplexed and impatient.†
Chpt 2.6perplexed = confused or puzzled
- He was perplexed to find the door of the flat wide open.†
Chpt 2.6
- The porter looked at Raskolnikov, frowning and perplexed.†
Chpt 2.6
- Both of them had heard of the quarrel from Nastasya, so far as she had succeeded in understanding and reporting it, and were in painful perplexity and suspense.†
Chpt 3.1perplexity = confusion due to complexity
- He found himself confronted with many new and unlooked-for perplexities.†
Chpt 3.2perplexities = things that confuse
- Raskolnikov muttered in reply, but with such a preoccupied and inattentive air that Dounia gazed at him in perplexity.†
Chpt 3.3perplexity = confusion due to complexity
- They were all looking at him in perplexity.†
Chpt 3.3
- Dounia gazed gravely and intently into the poor girl's face, and scrutinised her with perplexity.†
Chpt 3.4
- "I don't believe it, I can't believe it!" repeated Razumihin, trying in perplexity to refute Raskolnikov's arguments.†
Chpt 3.6
- Raskolnikov drew back on the sofa as Porfiry bent over him and stared in silent perplexity at him.†
Chpt 4.5
- A minute later Lebeziatnikov, too, appeared in the doorway; he did not come in, but stood still, listening with marked interest, almost wonder, and seemed for a time perplexed.†
Chpt 5.3perplexed = confused or puzzled
- Polenka was in her everyday dress; she looked in timid perplexity at her mother, and kept at her side, hiding her tears.†
Chpt 5.5perplexity = confusion due to complexity
Definition:
to confuse