CONFUSEDLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does confusedly mean? 

• CONFUSEDLY (adverb)
  The adverb CONFUSEDLY has 1 sense:

1. in a confused manner

  Familiarity information: CONFUSEDLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONFUSEDLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a confused manner

Context example:

Queen Augusta wrote him an hysterical letter in which she confusedly sympathised with him

Pertainym:

confused (lacking orderly continuity)

 Context examples 

"My engagements at present," replied Willoughby, confusedly, "are of such a nature—that—I dare not flatter myself"—He stopt.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

He had pointed confusedly out to sea.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

" was demanded confusedly on all hands. But for the moonlight they would have been in complete darkness. They ran to and fro; they crowded together: some sobbed, some stumbled: the confusion was inextricable.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

There were women weeping around; I hung over it and joined my sad tears to theirs; all this time no distinct idea presented itself to my mind, but my thoughts rambled to various subjects, reflecting confusedly on my misfortunes and their cause.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

I was swept away, but not unkindly, to some distance, where the people around me made me stay; urging, as I confusedly perceived, that he was bent on going, with help or without, and that I should endanger the precautions for his safety by troubling those with whom they rested.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)