muddling 1 of 2

adjective

Definition of muddlingnext
as in confusing

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muddling

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verb

present participle of muddle
1
as in baffling
to throw into a state of mental uncertainty a car shopper thoroughly muddled by too much well-meaning advice

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2
as in disrupting
to undo the proper order or arrangement of some mischievous brat had muddled the household accounts

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for muddling
  1. disrupting
  2. perplexing
  3. shuffling
  4. upsetting
  5. dismaying
  6. bewildering
  7. extraordinary
  8. incomprehensible
Verb
  • Both the Russian and Ukrainian militaries have successfully achieved standoff through the use of artillery firepower coupled with drone strikes, effectively disrupting their adversary’s offensive operations.
    Vikram Mittal, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2024
  • The 50,000 members of the union working at ports from Maine to Texas have been on strike since early Tuesday morning, halting the flow of the majority of containerized imports into the United States, along with many of the exports, disrupting the sales of American businesses overseas.
    Vanessa Yurkevich, CNN, 3 Oct. 2024
Definition of disrupting
Adjective
  • Your diet beverage is full of a slew of perplexing sugar substitutes, but the regular version has too much sugar to justify drinking it.
    Andrew Watman, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
  • These questions have seemed both urgent and perplexing, not only to Ramos but to many others as well; whether Trump will repeat or exceed his performance with Latinos is one of the main unknowns that could determine the outcome of the election.
    Geraldo Cadava, The New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2024
Definition of perplexing
Verb
  • Honorable Mentions My Top Five stays the same as my recent mid-September update, but there was shuffling from #6-10 down the home stretch.
    Tony Blengino, Forbes, 2 Oct. 2024
  • On Monday, about three days after Helene hit Florida as a Category 4 storm, survivors in North Carolina were scrounging for food and clean water and shuffling from shelter to shelter.
    Melissa Chan, NBC News, 1 Oct. 2024
Definition of shuffling
Adjective
  • Balance upsetting coverage with good news, stories of progress, and examples of people who have gone through tragedy and made it to the other side.
    Allie Volpe, Vox, 11 Nov. 2024
  • Dye notes that the upsetting details of the case in the quiet Mississippi beach town have had reverberating effects on the small seaside community.
    Emily Palmer, People.com, 31 Oct. 2024
Definition of upsetting
Adjective
  • The math suggests a dismaying possibility: these votes may very well swing.
    Yiyun Li, Harper's Magazine, 23 Oct. 2024
  • Amid the meal, the guest made a dismaying discovery.
    Brenton Blanchet, People.com, 14 Oct. 2024
Definition of dismaying
Adjective
  • Things to Come was directed by legendary production designer William Cameron Menzies, who later designed the burning of Atlanta in Gone with the Wind and clearly influenced Coppola’s skyscraper imagery and his bewildering mix of futurism and antiquity.
    Armond White, National Review, 9 Oct. 2024
  • For Leifer, the irony—that Jews, who had long been pressured by the right to police anti-Zionism, now faced pressure from the left to disavow Zionism in any form—was bewildering.
    Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2024
Definition of bewildering
Adjective
  • Furthermore, the governor’s last extraordinary session was a transparent public-relations stunt.
    Steven Greenhut, Orange County Register, 15 Nov. 2024
  • This extension was approved at an extraordinary general meeting held on July 18, 2024.
    Quartz Bot, Quartz, 14 Nov. 2024
Definition of extraordinary
Adjective
  • Their contributions to my life are incomprehensible.
    Emma Madden, Vulture, 31 Oct. 2024
  • Trump’s speeches at rallies, especially of late, are rambling to the point of being incomprehensible.
    Richard Behar, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
Definition of incomprehensible
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