Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a puzzling manner; perplexingly.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb In a puzzling manner.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adverb In a puzzling manner.

Etymologies

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puzzling +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • One name puzzlingly breaks the pattern, yet it is certainly genuine since four people from Michigan and Illinois responded with it: Piety Hill.

    VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VII No 2 1980

  • He tells us that we are about to read a story that he read maybe a half century ago in a magazine, a magazine that in the years since he has never been able to track down, a story, he somewhat puzzlingly adds, of which

    Translation 2010

  • A Tepco probe a month or so ago into puzzlingly high levels of radiation exposure recorded by people in Daiichi's command center revealed that the center was likely contaminated, and potentially thousands of workers ingested radioactive particles.

    Japanese Nuclear Cleanup Workers Detail Lax Safety Practices at Plant Phred Dvorak 2011

  • A Tepco probe a month or so ago into puzzlingly high levels of radiation exposure recorded by people in Daiichi's command center revealed that the center was likely contaminated, and potentially thousands of workers ingested radioactive particles.

    Japanese Nuclear Cleanup Workers Detail Lax Safety Practices at Plant Phred Dvorak 2011

  • Baker says that this argument is puzzlingly "offset" by "simple figures," like the unemployment rate and the federal budget deficit.

    New York Times Provides The Ultimate Inside-The-Bubble Guide To Economic Crisis Jason Linkins 2011

  • He tells us that we are about to read a story that he read maybe a half century ago in a magazine, a magazine that in the years since he has never been able to track down, a story, he somewhat puzzlingly adds, of which

    From the editor 2009

  • He tells us that we are about to read a story that he read maybe a half century ago in a magazine, a magazine that in the years since he has never been able to track down, a story, he somewhat puzzlingly adds, of which

    "The reader is the ghost": The Rider on the White Horse by Theodor Storm 2009

  • I discovered that I could explain the puzzlingly long delay between HIV infection and AIDS and why this period can vary so greatly between patients—it could show up in less than two years in one person and yet lurk for more than a decade in another.

    SuperCooperators Martin A. Nowak 2011

  • He tells us that we are about to read a story that he read maybe a half century ago in a magazine, a magazine that in the years since he has never been able to track down, a story, he somewhat puzzlingly adds, of which

    A Different Stripe: 2009

  • Baker says that this argument is puzzlingly "offset" by "simple figures," like the unemployment rate and the federal budget deficit.

    New York Times Provides The Ultimate Inside-The-Bubble Guide To Economic Crisis Jason Linkins 2011

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