The word 'mystifying' is correct and commonly used in written English.
It means causing confusion or bewilderment. Example: The magician's tricks were so mystifying that the audience couldn't figure out how he did them.
Whenever I ask myself the mystifying question of why the Conservatives, the natural governing party for centuries, dissolved into civil war and swung so violently to the nationalist right, I think that in some mysterious way it goes back to the trauma of Margaret's defeat.
It seemed mystifying that these privileged people had actually handed over money to leave behind their jobs, homes and families and put themselves through a week of pain and suffering.
Friends and colleagues find it mystifying as well as tragic.
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They see Mr Orban as merely the latest example in a long line of erratic eastern politicians prone to mystifying and ungrateful bouts of troublemaking.
And they have the information on behaviour and technology to guide their customers through the increasingly mystifying choices they must make.
By teaming up, O2 and Three can save £250m annually by only having to invest in one network, according to a conservative estimate by Enders Analysis, a research firm.In this section The paradox of the ghetto Drill-seekers Murder most mystifying Mobile marriages Nigelie Bennage Rearguard action Golden oldies The great incubator Murphy's law ReprintsWhether consumers will benefit is another matter.
Yet elsewhere, in the former Yugoslavia for example, such fears seem mystifying and even paranoid.The new and future members also share capital-thirstiness.
None is as mystifying as "tape reading", whose practitioners use the movement of market prices to gauge where a particular stock is heading, even while knowing nothing of the underlying company.
Mystifying financial products have tripped up even their clever inventors.
If not now, never Reprints Related items The euro zone's debt crisis: The cracks spread and widenApr 29th 2010 Charlemagne: Going for marketsApr 29th 2010It will strike some as mystifying that a small, peripheral economy should suddenly threaten the world's biggest economic area.
