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28 words match “CONFUSEDLY”

CONFUSEDLY adv.

In a confused manner.

Confusedly; obscurely. [Obs.]

To free from entanglement; to release from a condition of being intricately and confusedly involved or interlaced; to reduce to orderly arrangement; to straighten out; as, to disentangle a skein of yarn.

DISORDERLY adv.

In a disorderly manner; without law or order; irregularly; confusedly. Withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly. 2 Thess. iii. 6. Savages fighting disorderly with stones. Sir W. Raleigh.

DISTINCTLY adv.

With distinctness; not confusedly; without the blending of one part or thing another; clearly; plainly; as, to see distinctly.

A mass ccomposed of various materials confusedly mixed; a medley; a mixture. A confounded farrago of doubts, fears, hopes, wishes, and all the flimsy furniture of a country miss's brain. Sheridan.

In a hazy manner; mistily; obscurely; confusedly.

HUDDLE v. 2 definitions

ress together promiscuously, from confusion, apprehension, or the like; to crowd together confusedly; to press or hurry in disorder; to crowd. The cattle huddled on the lea. Tennyson. Huddling together on the public square . . . like a herd of panic- struck deer. Prescott.

HURRY-SKURRY adv.

Confusedly; in a bustle. [Obs.] Gray.

To entangle as in a cobweb; to mix confusedly. [R.] Hudibras. Physiology imbrangled with an inapplicable logic. Coleridge.

IMMETHODICALLY adv.

Without method; confusedly; unsystematically.

INDISTINCTLY adv.

In an indistinct manner; not clearly; confusedly; dimly; as, certain ideas are indistinctly comprehended. In its sides it was bounded distinctly, but on its ends confusedly an indistinctly. Sir I. Newton.

To take in; to gather in; to mingle confusedly; to blend or merge. [R.] The gathering number, as it moves along, Involves a vast involuntary throng. Pope. Earth with hell To mingle and involve. Milton.

trips of ivory, bone, wood, etc., for playing a child's game, the jackstraws being thrown confusedly together on a table, to be gathered up singly by a hooked instrument, without touching or disturbing the rest of the pile. See Spilikin.

To meet or unite in a confused way; to mix confusedly. Swift.

A heap of thing confusedly mixed together; a jumble.

, In a muddy manner; turbidly; without mixture; cloudily; obscurely; confusedly.

To mix confusedly; to confuse; to make a mess of; as, to muddle matters; also, to perplex; to mystify. F. W. Newman.

A mass of type confusedly mixed or unsorted. [Written also pie.]