baffling

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And Such scraps of talk were baffling, and Gloria, with scant patience for the baffling, moved up and down restlessly.

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  1. Frustrating; disconcerting; confusing; perplexing: as, a baffling wind, that is, one which frequently shifts from one point to another. Those are the true baffling prejudices for man, which he never suspects for prejudices. De Quincey, Herodotus.
  2. An arrangement or system of partitions, plates, or rings whereby a tendency to motion in an undesired direction is prevented. See baffle-plate, baffle-ring.

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  • And Such scraps of talk were baffling, and Gloria, with scant patience for the baffling, moved up and down restlessly. —  The Everlasting Whisper
  • 'It's all very--baffling,' I at length stammered Soames said nothing, but cruelly did not cease to look at me Are you sure,' I temporised, 'quite sure you copied the thing out correctly Quite Well, then it's this wretched Nupton who must have made--must be going to make--some idiotic mistake.... Look here, Soames! —  Seven Men
  • "It's all very--baffling," I at length stammered Soames said nothing, but cruelly did not cease to look at me Are you sure," I temporized, "quite sure you copied the thing out correctly Quite Well, then, it's this wretched Nupton who must have made--must be going to make--some idiotic mistake. —  Enoch Soames: a memory of the eighteen-nineties
  • (If this option is baffling, here's a quick introduction.) —  Making Light
  • Even more baffling is the numbering system. —  Epinions Recent Content for Home
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