All 10 Uses
perplex
in
The Souls of Black Folk
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- All these experiments, orders, and systems were bound to attract and perplex the government and the nation.†
Chpt 2 *
- Most of the army officers greeted this as a welcome relief from perplexing "Negro affairs," and Secretary Fessenden, July 29, 1864, issued an excellent system of regulations, which were afterward closely followed by General Howard.†
Chpt 2perplexing = confusing due to complexity
- The most perplexing and least successful part of the Bureau's work lay in the exercise of its judicial functions.†
Chpt 2
- All this vast expenditure of money and brains might have formed a great school of prospective citizenship, and solved in a way we have not yet solved the most perplexing and persistent of the Negro problems.†
Chpt 2
- It came to regard its work as merely temporary, and Negro suffrage as a final answer to all present perplexities.†
Chpt 2perplexities = things that confuse
- Nor does the paradox and danger of this situation fail to interest and perplex the best conscience of the South.†
Chpt 9
- I handle it curiously, and watch perplexed its winking, breathing, and sneezing.†
Chpt 11perplexed = confused or puzzled
- He did not know how to study; he had no idea of thoroughness; and with his tardiness, carelessness, and appalling good-humor, we were sore perplexed.†
Chpt 13
- So he thought and puzzled along for himself,—pausing perplexed where others skipped merrily, and walking steadily through the difficulties where the rest stopped and surrendered.†
Chpt 13
- Sitting on the kitchen steps, John stared at the corn, thoroughly perplexed.†
Chpt 13
Definitions:
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(1)
(perplex) to confuse
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)