confusedly
English
Adverb
confusedly (comparative more confusedly, superlative most confusedly)
- In a confused manner.
- c. 1591, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 1, Act I, Scene 1,
- He wanted pikes to set before his archers;
- Instead whereof sharp stakes pluck'd out of hedges
- They pitched in the ground confusedly,
- To keep the horsemen off from breaking in.
- 1648, Robert Herrick, “Delight in Disorder” in Hesperides,
- A cuff neglectful, and thereby
- Ribbons to flow confusedly:
- 1674, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 2, lines 911-14,
- The womb of Nature, and perhaps her grave,
- Of neither sea, nor shore, nor air, nor fire,
- But all these in their pregnant causes mixed
- Confus’dly […]
- 1860, George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss, Book VI, Chapter IX,
- She heard confusedly the busy, indifferent voices around her, and wished her mind could flow into that easy babbling current.
- 1919, W. B. Yeats, “Her Praise” in The Wild Swans at Coole, lines 5-9,
- And though I have turned the talk by hook or crook
- Until her praise should be the uppermost theme,
- A woman spoke of some new tale she had read,
- A man confusedly in a half dream
- As though some other name ran in his head.
- c. 1591, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 1, Act I, Scene 1,
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