Adjective : That is a confounded lie. From Dictionary.com.
Verb (used with object) : The complicated directions confounded him. ,The revolution confounded the people. ,truth confounded with error. ,Confound it! ,to confound their arguments. From Dictionary.com.
His eyes were still open, his expression confounded. From Wordnik.com. [Demon From The Dark] Reference
He paused with swift awkwardness, again confounded by his unwonted flow of speech. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 1] Reference
Sir Menzies Campbell once again confounded his critics by displaying genuine fire and passion over Iraq. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-01-01] Reference
I will gladly cross swords with Baron Haer another day, when I, too, have ... what did you call the confounded things, Paul? ". From Wordnik.com. [Mercenary] Reference
Apollonius had no suspicion how seriously the laughing "confounded" was meant. From Wordnik.com. [The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 09 Friedrich Hebbel and Otto Ludwig] Reference
The colonel himself "confounded" the young scamp for his recklessness, and directed a report to be entered against him. From Wordnik.com. [Starlight Ranch and Other Stories of Army Life on the Frontier] Reference
But one name confounded me. From Wordnik.com. [Jennifer Weiner: R.I.P., Jade Goody] Reference
Some were confounded by the intractability of both sides. From Wordnik.com. [Whose Jerusalem Is It, Anyway?] Reference
The source of the epidemic has confounded the government. From Wordnik.com. [Outbreak Of A Deadly Virus] Reference
Wolper both conformed to the stereotype and confounded it. From Wordnik.com. [David Wolper obituary] Reference
Then again, the Unabomer has always confounded expectations. From Wordnik.com. [Flummoxing The Feds] Reference
His political shrewdness confounded even some of his supporters. From Wordnik.com. [A Tale of Two Fine Roosevelts] Reference
It has already been a year when voters have confounded the experts. From Wordnik.com. [A Liberal’s Lament] Reference
Once again the perversity of human nature has confounded our expectations. From Wordnik.com. [Innocents Lost] Reference
It was this world of swaps and repos and CDOs that confounded regulators the last time. From Wordnik.com. [Bank regulators once bamboozled, now emboldened] Reference
Stocks and bonds have confounded most of last year's prophets by having an amazingly good 1995. From Wordnik.com. [Excited About The Dow? Get A Grip On Yourself.] Reference
Excerpts: On his administration's greatest accomplishment: We have confounded the prophets of doom. From Wordnik.com. [An Emotional Goodbye] Reference
Rube Goldberg would have been confounded by the brilliant simplicity of VW's new hardtop convertible, Eos. From Wordnik.com. [Road Test: VW Eos] Reference
What we do know is that the American economy has consistently confounded powerful reasons for it to falter. From Wordnik.com. [Is Oil at the Tipping Point?] Reference
But he confounded some critics by appointing both like-minded and more-liberal education experts to the panel. From Wordnik.com. [Tokyo's Own White House] Reference
Schwarzenegger, however, confounded expectations by releasing the film for a 25th-anniversary airing last year. From Wordnik.com. [Building Arnold] Reference
The rise of health-care nation has confounded America's political and intellectual leaders, of both left and right. From Wordnik.com. [Health-Care Nation] Reference
Two weeks ago he confounded his own aides by warning, twice, that Clinton would risk "world war" if he bombed Iraq. From Wordnik.com. [Yeltsin's War Games] Reference
Latinos in particular are confounded by a system that does not reflect the complexity of race as they understand it. From Wordnik.com. [One Drop Of Bloody History] Reference
Not for the first time had the machinations of power-sharing confounded those who come here to make sense of it all. From Wordnik.com. [Obama's exit strategy from Iraq under threat once again] Reference
The memory of a real event, visiting a mall, becomes confounded with the suggestion that you were once lost in one. 4. From Wordnik.com. [You Must Remember This] Reference
But one hit away from movie stardom, Jackman has confounded expectations by taking a leading role in a Broadway musical. From Wordnik.com. [Plays: Jackman's 'Oz' Fest] Reference
With a confounded look, she replied, "It was fulfilling because I knew when payday came I had money to feed my children.". From Wordnik.com. [Who's The Daddy? Grandma Didn't Ask.] Reference
Other programmers were equally confounded, using phrases like "new visual idiom" to describe the work -- and then passing. From Wordnik.com. [Will Wright Likes His 'Stupid Fun'] Reference
Schroder promptly backpedaled on the issue, as the Red-Green tensions that have confounded him from the start grew even worse. From Wordnik.com. [A Stumbling Start] Reference
What confounded Japanese most was how the guru in the fuchsia robe managed to recruit some of the nation's best and brightest. From Wordnik.com. [Tokyo Grabs The Doomsday Guru] Reference
Since taking charge of the world's fourth largest nation 15 months ago, Megawati has confounded many with her aloof leadership. From Wordnik.com. [Dazed And Confused] Reference
Perhaps I ought to say here that this supposed state of discipline is by no means to be confounded with the Roman Catholic doctrine of. From Wordnik.com. [Love's Final Victory] Reference
"O. course you are; and what do you mean by that confounded rag up there?" cried the officer, pointing to the flag of the "B.O. W. C.". From Wordnik.com. [Lost in the Fog] Reference
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