6 uses
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Definition
to confuse
- 'I still can't hear you,' Aarfy called back innocently with an expression of mild and reproving perplexity.Chapter 15 — Piltchard & Wren (46% in)
- Colonel Cargill, in Rome, was perplexed.Chapter 4 — Doc Daneeka (61% in)
- To American authorities his identity was equally perplexing; a whole regiment of crack C.I.D. men had been thrown into the front lines to find out who he was, while a battalion of combat-hardened public-relations officers stood on red alert twenty-four hours a day with orders to begin publicizing him the moment he was located.Chapter 13 — Major De Coverley (13% in)
- It was all very perplexing, all very discouraging.Chapter 19 — Colonel Cathcart (82% in)
- General Dreedle's great, red domineering face was gnarled with perplexity and oaken with awesome resolution.Chapter 21 — General Dreedle (80% in)
- He scrutinized the chaplain perplexedly.Chapter 25 — The Chaplain (62% in)
There are no more uses of "perplex" in Catch-22.
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