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Synonyms for perplexing

lacking clarity of meaning

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'How a self-confessed drug lord like Kerwin Espinosa can be exonerated by the State, is perplexing. It reflects the sloppiness of the police's investigation and case build up against these drug lords,' the senator added.
EDDIE Murphy, Chairman and MD of Ford Ireland has said he has found it perplexing that the government hasn't introduced a scrappage scheme as part of its emergency budget on Wednesday.
"It was perplexing because I always think we are capable of carving out something."
I would like to say to Mrs Howe (a perplexed granny) to also consider the needs of parents who find her suggestions perplexing.
19 testimony, Violante told the commission that "there are no good answers" to the "complex and perplexing questions" that a lump sum program for disabled veterans would present.
With their starkly monochrome palettes and vertiginous stairs, the soaring interiors recall the perplexing, illogical fantasies of M.
The chapters in the book that emanate from those revised papers are not only thought provoking, they are thought perplexing. Is the book a tough read, particularly for non-economists?
Of all the objects in the world, the box has to be the most complex and perplexing. While it keeps everything within it safe, secure and protected From the outside elements, it also manages to stave off potential positive influences and ideas, at least if we're talking about the box that most of us have in our minds, the one that limits our imagination.
What is perplexing is that the Iranians domestically are hardly in a position to withstand either a) a cut-off of their oil exports, or b) economic sanctions by the international community in the event, as seems likely, this crisis escalates.
Joseph Firestone, Ph.D., provides an introduction to the complex, but fascinating, world of data mining in his article, "Mining for Information Gold" RIM professionals can aid their businesses by using data mining to reveal nuggets of information that can help their companies increase profits, find new avenues of revenue, or arrive at solutions for a perplexing problem.
With the Fed vouching that inflation now seems under control and that a "measured" pace of rate increases will be continued, the 10-year Treasury has settled down to roughly 4.25% perpetuating what Allan Greenspan has called a "conundrum," the perplexing phenomenon where the Treasury has resiliently remained low despite rising rates.
When he didn't, the ballet veered off into out-of-context, perplexing choreography, most notably when a group of adolescents performed a sequence of academic ballet steps en pointe.
For oysters in 28[degrees]C water, the cadmium didn't increase oxygen use, which Lannig initially found perplexing.
Panter's book, Jimbo in Purgatory (Fantagraphics, 2004) provides a helpful, if ironically didactic, context for his deliberately gauche and perplexing paintings.
Looked at side by side, these results are perplexing: Americans treasure their religious liberty, but they don't see separation of church and state as essential to protecting it.