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Meanings of bemusement in English

Catalan
ofuscació

Confusion resulting from failure to understand.

ofuscació
Usage of bemusement in English
1
The contemporaneous New York Times review could hardly have expressed greater bemusement.
The Irish Times
2
Broderick looks on in wide-eyed bemusement on hearing this read to him.
The Irish Times
3
Facebook Twitter Pinterest Wes Brown shows his bemusement after being sent off.
The Guardian
4
The look he got from Rhodey was part bemusement and part irritation.
Iron Man
5
If you don't clearly delineate, like myself, you are met with bemusement.
The Guardian
6
He's captained most teams on which he's played, much to his bemusement.
The Irish Times
7
Pleased by my bemusement, Yi Kong eagerly showed me her other collections.
Petals from the sky
8
Mexicans have greeted the domestic beer shortage with more bemusement than anger.
The Guardian
9
He touched the blade in some bemusement, then grasped it and pulled.
Outlander
10
Quinn glanced at the man with a mixture of bemusement and trepidation.
James Potter and the Morrigan Web
11
He looked at her with a curious mix of bemusement and grief.
The Fireman
12
Zaphod shook his head in bemusement and stumbled forward across the plain.
The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide
13
Luka Milivojevic's penalty on 51 minutes further added to the sense of bemusement.
The Guardian
14
No wonder the Tartan Army look on with an increasing sense of bemusement.
The Guardian
15
Soon afterwards, he became a vocal advocate of her work, to her bemusement.
The Guardian
16
The reaction from an African perspective is likely be bemusement rather than surprise.
The South African
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Translations for bemusement
Bemusement through the time
Bemusement across language varieties
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Common