"evidently confused" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use this phrase when making an observation about someone's mental or emotional state. For example, "The student was evidently confused about the assignment instructions."
But then he hesitated, evidently confused by the attackers' police uniforms.
Amani Walker, a successful Hollywood writer and the creator of "Rebel," told Lyle that she was once passed over for a job by a boss who had evidently confused her with Amaani Lyle.
An evidently confused woman in the audience took the opportunity to ask "In what sense are you writers about Africa?" The other panelists Nadine Gordimer and Kwame Anthony Appiah were too baffled to respond.
To be sure, the complaints from the Democrats about a ballot in the county that evidently confused many voters, causing them to vote by mistake for Patrick Buchanan when they intended to vote for Mr. Gore, need to be taken seriously.
The 19-year-old's deep-lying positions were evidently confusing his markers.
But instead of blaming Germans' hunger for "moral self-flagellation," she should have searched for the culprit closer to home: our journalists have busily fueled public outrage at politicians' missteps, evidently confusing moralizing editorials with political analysis.
He thinks he is winning us over with "his side of the story," but he is evidently confusing us with his studio audience.
Trump seemed to think that that the reporter had already asked a question, evidently confusing her for the other woman reporter sitting right next to her. "No, she's not the same," Niinisto explained, visibly surprised.
Dana, who changed his name from Salemi in 1945 (he said it sounded too much like salami), had evidently been confused by the record keepers with another person named Sam Salemi, who died in 1969, his son said.
Scientists don't quite understand how it works, but evidently the picture confuses our brains' ability to detect motion.
Machines jam, ballots are lost, voters are confused, as some evidently were in Palm Beach County, Fla., by a ballot on which candidates' names appeared with punch holes between them and many voters said they picked Patrick J. Buchanan when they meant to vote for Vice President Al Gore.
