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bewildering

/bɪˈwɪldəɹɪŋ/ adjective C2
  1. Very baffling, confusing, or perplexing, often due to a very large choice being available. · There was a bewildering collection of curiosities filling the room.
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Matthew did not know that Samuel, in the recent expansion of his business, had set up a lady clerk also; she was a niece of his wife’s and a very dashing young person indeed, with a huge, drooping pompadour, big, rolling brown eyes, and a most extensive and bewildering smile.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 189 · C1
Everything was so strange, so brilliant, so bewildering--the rows of ladies in evening dress, the critical faces, the whole atmosphere of wealth and culture about her.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 283 · C1
“It is very bewildering.”
The Hound of the Baskervilles, p. 32 · C1

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