adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a puzzled/baffled/bewildered expression (= one that shows you are confused or cannot understand something )
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I can still recall Dan’s baffled expression when I asked him for an answer.
puzzled
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He looked at his son’s puzzled face.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
slightly
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He emerged, shaken and slightly puzzled , long hair filled with leaves which he brushed away.
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Aschmann was looking at him, slightly puzzled but smiling still.
■ NOUN
expression
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Shama, who was lifting herself up on her lame legs, turned with a puzzled expression .
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The Colonel was flung back against the wall where he stood, for a moment, a puzzled expression on his face.
frown
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The nun's forehead creased into a puzzled frown .
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As she scanned the titles Polly's brows contracted in a puzzled frown .
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Daak was unusually restrained, standing behind Ace with a hand on her shoulder and a puzzled frown on his face.
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Robyn slowed the jeep with a puzzled frown , considering.
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William got up from his chair at the workbench and went over to open up with a puzzled frown .
look
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Richard's puzzled look alarmed me.
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I thought that Neil, still over by the door, had a puzzled look .
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They viewed me with the same puzzled look as I later saw on the faces of nomads miles from civilization.
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When the doctor saw me sitting beside the boy a puzzled look crossed his face.
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She met it with a puzzled look in her eyes.
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He shuddered at his remembrance of royalty's puzzled look when he removed this ostentatious headgear.
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She sat up, the puzzled look on her face turning to one of irritation.
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Oh yes, Enright remembered him very well, and when I mentioned the name a puzzled look fleetingly crossed his face.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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After my explanation, Mandy still had a puzzled expression on her face.
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Her reaction left me puzzled .
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I'm a little puzzled - why did you call her yourself when I specifically told you I would do it?
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The doctor was puzzled by the man's symptoms and ordered several further tests.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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All squatted, puzzled and uncertain.
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Epitot looked puzzled and removed it again.
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He saw the knot of people beyond the flames gazing at him in puzzled amazement, but they made no response.
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Hospital staff were puzzled after children collapsed with cardiac arrests and respiratory attacks.
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It gathers puzzled observers wherever it goes, too.
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Presently, Jaq blanked the eye-screen and relaxed, though with a puzzled air.
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She had sounded rather puzzled and insulted.
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She looked puzzled and rather angry, and Syl looked old and silly.