perplexingly

In a way or to an extent that is perplexing.

Adverb

  1. In a way or to an extent that is perplexing.
    • It was a long time before he could steady his nerves to answer my questions, and then he answered perplexingly and brokenly. - 1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 83:
    • These perplexingly dissimilar objects found their way into her work at different stages in her artistic development. - 1988 January 22, Holly Greenhagen, “Art Facts: Ellen Lanyon's magic art”, in Chicago Reader:

Origin

Etymology tree English perplexing Middle English -ly English -ly English perplexingly From perplexing + -ly.