All 11 Uses
perplex
in
The American, by Henry James
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- "A little, my daughter, a little?" said M. Nioche perplexed.†
Chpt 1perplexed = confused or puzzled
- Newman looked at the young girl in some perplexity.†
Chpt 4perplexity = confusion due to complexity
- It was not an excitement or a perplexity; it was a placid, fathomless sense of diversion.†
Chpt 5
- And yet poor Babcock liked him, and remembered that even if he was sometimes perplexing and painful, this was not a reason for giving him up.†
Chpt 5perplexing = confusing due to complexity
- But I was so perplexed.†
Chpt 5perplexed = confused or puzzled
- Believe me your sincere friend and well-wisher, BENJAMIN BABCOCK P. S. I am greatly perplexed by Luini.†
Chpt 5
- The Count Valentin looked at our hero from head to foot with his peculiar smile, in which impudence and urbanity seemed perplexingly commingled.†
Chpt 6 *
- M. de Bellegarde stared, with a look of unresentful perplexity.†
Chpt 7perplexity = confusion due to complexity
- Bellegarde wore a look of mingled perplexity, sympathy, and amusement.†
Chpt 8
- The expression of pain and embarrassment had passed out of her face, and it was illuminated with something which, this time at least, Newman need not have been perplexed whether to attribute to habit or to intention, to art or to nature.†
Chpt 9perplexed = confused or puzzled
- Then she went on to Madame de Cintre's apartment; Newman, perplexed and alarmed, followed her rapidly.†
Chpt 18
Definitions:
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(1)
(perplex) to confuse
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)