confounded

• The media is very confounded right now. They're very confused. They don't know whether to trash themselves, trash their colleagues, or what. - 2017 March 6, “Mark Levin on why Obama may have been spying on Trump; Reps....
• Reagan has famously stumped his chroniclers. His official biographer, Edmund Morris, was so confounded by the assignment that he resorted to fiction, producing a muddled portrait of “Dutch” (Reagan’s longtime nickname)...

• Nine times the Space that measures Day and Night To mortal men, he with his horrid crew Lay vanquisht, rowling in the fiery Gulfe Confounded though immortal: […] - 1674, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book I, lines 50–3:

Synonyms: beaten overcome vanquished foiled bested broken confounded conquered defeated licked overpowered pwned recreant rekt routed stonkered subjugated thwarted undone worsted wrecked

• The confounded thing doesn't work.
• "This is all stuff and nonsense," said the king; "I shall have to go myself, if we are to get this confounded whistle from him." - 1886, Peter Christen Asbjø￵rnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales,...
• Some confounded fact we men have been living contentedly with ever since the day of creation would start up and knock the whole thing over. - 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s...

• Here Mrs. Higgs paused for a moment, and drew out a huge red pocket-handkerchief, with which her face was for some minutes confounded. - 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter VI, in Romance and Reality. […],...