baffling

Examples of baffled

baffled

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

The six puzzles examined could actually be suggested as the beginning of a long list of social and economic performance indicators that have baffled scholars.
The evening concluded with an excellent illusion act that had most, if not all of the audience, baffled.
These fading memories baffled the rare scholars who sought for some memory of that regime.
The contrast between the two letters left me baffled.
I confess myself baffled by this sentence (if that is what it is).
It is entirely of a piece with this perspective that such writers are somewhat baffled by the processes that they label 'stereotyping'.
Many commentators were baffled by the implausibility and complexity of the stories; others deemed the music without melody and imagination and the orchestra noisy.
This reader is baffled by what a comedy of the commons would be.
The commissioners on uniform state laws were among those baffled.
The seemingly inconsistent placement of the baffled entries on ceremonial platforms suggests an almost inflated investment in potent symbolic imagery.
For instance, how far did psychiatrists priding themselves on ' modern, scientific ' approaches find themselves baffled by religious fervour in general?
Although in vigorous health, the king abruptly slipped into a sequence of fits that baffled the court doctors.
This apparent digression into the proprieties of dining is likely to seem as irrelevant to the reader as it does to the tale's baffled protagonist.
Again the outsider would be baffled.
Montaigne declared himself baffled by the difficulty of getting agreement on it.
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