All 10 Uses
bemused
in
All the King's Men
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- He was not only bemused by the voice he had heard.†
Chpt 2 *
- He was bemused by the very grandeur of the position to which he aspired.†
Chpt 2
- He assumed that other people were as bemused by the grandeur and as blinded by the light of the post to which he aspired, and that they would only listen to argument and language that was grand and bright.†
Chpt 2
- While he was fumbling with the sheets, and looking down at them with a slightly bemused expression as though the stuff before him were in a foreign language, somebody tugged at my sleeve.†
Chpt 2
- He just started Duffy doing a dance along the edge, a kind of delicate, feather-toed, bemused, slow-motion adagio accompanied by arms pinwheeling around a face which was like a surprised custard pie with a hole scooped in the middle of the meringue, and the hole was Duffy's mouth, but no sound came out of it.†
Chpt 2
- Her thin arms rose and sank with a languid and bemused and fastidious punctuality, like your own effortless motion in a dream.†
Chpt 3
- I was, for a moment, bemused by that thought.†
Chpt 7
- But wrong or not, I did not put my surmise to the test, for if I myself was not truly aware of that rhythm and compulsion which bemused her, I was aware of her devotion to it, and could find every moment with her full enough.†
Chpt 7
- She kept saying that into the telephone—"It is horrible"—in a low bemused voice, three or four times.†
Chpt 9
- That summer we had seemed to be caught in a massive and bemusing tide which knew its own pace and time and would not be hurried even to the happiness which it surely promised.†
Chpt 10
Definitions:
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(1)
(bemused) puzzled or amused
or (less commonly): interested, engrossed or intrigued - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)