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baffling /ˈbaf(ə)lɪŋ /adjectiveImpossible to understand; perplexing: the crime is a baffling mystery for the police...- Why he would go to such extraordinary lengths is baffling.
- Talking to someone who doesn't give you her full attention is rather baffling.
- How a state could enforce such mind-bogglingly stupid policies is baffling.
Derivativesbafflingly adverb [as submodifier]: his team selection has been bafflingly erratic...- Some of the tunes are bafflingly uncategorisable.
- The identity and motive of Alexander's would-be killer prove predictable and irrelevant, while the vague supernatural undertones of the flashbacks are bafflingly silly, introduced abruptly and forgotten just as quickly.
- This is where science & technology take over - except, curiously enough, researchers are yet to fully grasp the physics of swing bowling, just as they have failed, equally bafflingly, to find a cure for common cold.
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