look bemused
Frequency: 7.522.4 per million words
To have an expression that shows you are confused.
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Examples (10)
- Sarah looked totally bemused by the magician's trick.
- He looked bemused when I asked for directions in a language he didn't understand.
- The professor looked slightly bemused at the student's unusual question.
- She often looks bemused during abstract art exhibitions.
- We all looked a little bemused, wondering why the meeting had been cancelled so abruptly.
- The cat looked bemused as it watched the robot vacuum cleaner.
- The audience looked rather bemused by the film's ambiguous ending.
- Why do you look so bemused? Did I say something strange?
- As the strange story unfolded, the children started to look more and more bemused.
- John looked bemused at the strange combination of ingredients in the sandwich.