"muddled about" is not a standard part of the English language.
You would likely not use it in written English.
They're just teenagers, all muddled about what they want.
She charges that in the name of doing what is best for their children, parents become muddled about whose needs are being met: their children's or their own.
People seem to get muddled about how an athlete's outward respect and good demeanour on a sporting field relates to his aggression in competition.
But executives are alarmingly muddled about this: they imagine they are able to time their companies' share purchases, buying them when they are cheap to "create value" for all.
Many of the issues they raise reflect popular concern about the hard edges of globalisation fears, genuine if muddled, about leaving the poor behind, harming the environment, caring about profits more than people, unleashing dubious genetically modified foods, and the rest.
Certainly, there's much that's muddled about this American gothic underworld fairy tale, which cribs from David Lynch, Gaspar Noé and Gosling's own mentor, Nicolas Winding Refn, with almost endearing abandon, but I found much to enjoy in its overripe atmospherics; Gosling has a tactile, sensual flair for sound and image that suggests we shouldn't write him off just yet.
Dinos holds up various tubes to my face, trying to get a colour match for the eyes, while Jake seems to have been muddling about with the same little brush in the middle of the canvas for hours.
Without that first expression of the vision collaborators are more likely to muddle about with no firm handle on where they're headed.
'I'm suffering.' Haber ended his life 'broken, muddled, moving about in a mental and moral vacuum,' said his friend, Zionist leader Chaim Weizmann.
(Rachel Saltz) 'Bullet for Adolf' Woody Harrelson and Frankie Hyman's muddled play about one hot, hedonistic Houston summer in the 1980s has the feeling of a series of oft-recited anecdotes swapped, excitedly and incoherently, over the din of a jukebox in a crowded bar.
"I just think there's muddled thinking about how to progress this England side in one-day cricket because's it changed vastly," Tufnell said.
