Sentence examples for befuddle from inspiring English sources

One is to befuddle them with double discounting.

The fear of being fired may also befuddle rather than focus minds.Ironically enough, Messrs Loh and Stulz also found that investors pay more attention to analysts' opinions when times are tough.

LET English-speakers befuddle their low-paid with awkward references to "negative income taxes", "earned-income tax credits" (the American idiom) and "working families' tax credit" (the British variant).

This could befuddle a public long accustomed to thinking in terms of inflation rather than price levels.

ReprintsThis illustrated pantomime's most appealing quality: a capacity to amuse all the family, often with lewd gags, designed to titillate oldies and befuddle their offspring.

Fast-moving, high-contrast shapes, however, did befuddle them.

It may be easier than ever to switch, but banks befuddle customers with so many different fees, penalty charges, overdraft rates and other hidden costs within their supposedly free current accounts that it is near impossible to compare one against another.

Without the fog of prestige or heritage to befuddle us, we would be more prone to select cars on their merits.

Certainty came in a guise of inscrutability; the products designed to reassure also happened to befuddle.

There were a few fleeting moments of inspiration, though; they came from filmmakers from Pakistan and Iran — two countries that bedevil, befuddle, provoke, and frighten the United States — who slipped in through the Academy's carefully policed side doors for documentaries and international writers and directors.

Through a process of laborious conjugation that would befuddle even the most competent Latin grammarian, Ithkuil requires a speaker to home in on the exact idea he means to express, and attempts to remove any possibility for vagueness.