"boggled" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe someone who is surprised or overwhelmed by something. For example, "The sight of the enormous tree left him boggled."
Which leaves us all the more boggled as to why he would have no interest in current affairs.
April's elections were marked by violence and fraud on a scale that boggled the imagination even of jaded Nigerian voters.
I HAVE to say, I'm boggled by Chicago economist Raghuram Rajan's latest pronouncement:[T]he International Monetary Fund's former chief economist says the Federal Reserve should consider raising rates, even as almost 10 percent of the U.S. workforce remains unemployed.
In this segment on Norway's "heavenly prison", the folks at Fox News seem sort of boggled by the idea that prisons might be anything other than the squalid overcrowded rape pens where human offal in America is sent to fester out of sight.
When Charlemagne visited the vineyards of the Moselle valley on the German-Luxembourg border, Luxembourgeois vintners boggled in horror at the idea of serving wines from the German side of the river.
Boris Johnson, the mayor of London, says it will be a brilliant totem of post-Olympic urban regeneration in Docklands, and one that would have "boggled the minds" of the Romans, and of Gustave Eiffel, whose own tower he so admires.
Follow me on Twitter: @WaltWhitmanOfficial Watch: Five of America's top-rated experts debate a subject that's boggled minds for centuries.
The awkward efforts of the Gore campaign have been boggled by the amiable cleverness of his challenger.
Nonetheless, the idea of sending Aaron to jail for thirty-five years for downloading a mass of scholarly articles — it boggled my mind when I first heard about it, and it still does.
Maria even brought a photograph of Wilbury to a rehearsal and told the cast that it was the house that had given Williams the notion of Belle Reve — a factual tidbit that boggled the imagination, since the play was written in 1945 46 and she didn't meet Williams until 1948.
This reader's mind was boggled, too, by a nine-year-old boy's being allowed to roam, every weekend, all over the five boroughs, inquiring, in alphabetical order, at the two hundred and sixteen different addresses listed in the phone book under the name "Black," which was written on an envelope containing a key that Oskar found in a blue vase on a high shelf of his father's closet.
