All 17 Uses
perplex
in
The Jungle, by Sinclair
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- Then, tumbled out of the cars without ceremony, they were no better off than before; they stood staring down the vista of Dearborn Street, with its big black buildings towering in the distance, unable to realize that they had arrived, and why, when they said "Chicago," people no longer pointed in some direction, but instead looked perplexed, or laughed, or went on without paying any attention.†
Chpt 2perplexed = confused or puzzled
- A full hour before the party reached the city they had begun to note the perplexing changes in the atmosphere.†
Chpt 2perplexing = confusing due to complexity
- One of the consequences of all these things was that Jurgis was no longer perplexed when he heard men talk of fighting for their rights.†
Chpt 8 *perplexed = confused or puzzled
- It was sufficiently perplexing that this tiny mite of life should have come into the world at all in the manner that it had; that it should have come with a comical imitation of its father's nose was simply uncanny.†
Chpt 10perplexing = confusing due to complexity
- This was for the uninitiated the most perplexing work of all; for all that the woman had to give was a single turn of the wrist; and in some way she contrived to give it so that instead of an endless chain of sausages, one after another, there grew under her hands a bunch of strings, all dangling from a single center.†
Chpt 13
- Chapter 15 The beginning of these perplexing things was in the summer; and each time Ona would promise him with terror in her voice that it would not happen again—but in vain.†
Chpt 15
- "How do you mean?" he asked, in perplexity.†
Chpt 15perplexity = confusion due to complexity
- "Where's Ona?" he demanded; and the child looked at him in perplexity.†
Chpt 15
- "As before?" echoed Jadvyga, in perplexity.†
Chpt 15
- Jurgis stood for half a minute more, stammering his perplexity through an eighth of an inch of crack; and then, as there was really nothing more to be said, he excused himself and went away.†
Chpt 15
- Jurgis was staring from the judge to the lawyer in perplexity.†
Chpt 16
- Jurgis had been listening in perplexity.†
Chpt 17
- "She tried to," said Stanislovas, gazing at him in perplexity.†
Chpt 17
- "The child?" he echoed in perplexity.†
Chpt 18
- Jurgis stood gazing at him in perplexity.†
Chpt 20
- The magistrate was staring at him in perplexity.†
Chpt 25
- Jurgis asked, in some perplexity, and the other explained in detail.†
Chpt 25
Definitions:
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(1)
(perplex) to confuse
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)