"flummoxed" is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it to describe a state of confusion or being perplexed. For example, "After reading the instructions, he was left feeling flummoxed."
Modern reliance on mobile phones means that when visitors find themselves without a signal, they're flummoxed.
That close control and sway flummoxed Liam Feeney, Pugh hammering his shot back across goal and in via the goalkeeper's fingertips, six minutes before half-time.
But what England were less accustomed to was playing so many short deliveries on a bouncy wicket, and, with the exception of Ian Bell, they were flummoxed.
"The Glasgow Effect" was a term coined by academics flummoxed at why the city had significantly higher levels of ill health and premature death than other UK cities possessing similar social challenges.
Where they had initially felt vulnerable, scarred by those experiences in south-west London two weeks ago, they grew into the contest with Chelsea increasingly flummoxed by an inability to score early.
But we were both flummoxed.
If the Taliban, they appear flummoxed as to how to respond to the attack, with spokesmen refusing to confirm, deny, praise or condemn it.
Her capsule portraits reveal a cadre of weak leaders flummoxed by change, from the "easily swayed" Russian tsar to the "intense, self-confident and vain" chief of the Austro-Hungarian armed forces, Conrad von Hötzendorf.
So consider a horrible possibility: that now it is the "new America" in the west that just doesn't "get it" (in the infuriating phrase of the 1990s' cyber-gurus) and the "old America" in the east that is grappling with the future.Ever since September 11th Californians have been out of the American loop, flummoxed by the war on terrorism and locked into a pre-September 11th mindset.
Moreover the tail of underachievement is long and cannot be explained away by immigration: around a fifth of British students cannot read properly and a similar number are flummoxed by simple sums.
Because of a far-flung Somali diaspora of nearly 2m in America (especially Minnesota, Britain Londonon and Cardiff), Kenya (nervously adjacent to Somalia) and Scandinavia, the Shabab's capacity for wreaking terror at home and abroad has frightened and flummoxed Western and African governments.
