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Thinking or acting in an aimless or confused manner.

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Usage examples (3)
  • The anodyne of muddledom, by which most men blur and blend their mistakes, never passed Leonard's lips --
  • But in the twilight of the double vision, a spiritual muddledom is set up for which no high-sounding words can be found; we can neither act nor refrain from action, we...
  • I then learned that what as a boy I was wont to call the Rule of Three was more properly termed equations, and that equations might be complicated to the highest limits of...
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