Example sentences for: bumfuzzled

How can you use “bumfuzzled” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The lead story in today's New York Times quotes Bill Clinton saying that the Republican budget passed yesterday by the House, which he intends to veto, "totally bumfuzzled " American voters on the question of whether Social Security funds would be tapped for current spending.

  • But what really interests Chatterbox is the president's use of the word, bumfuzzled , which Chatterbox has never heard before.

  • Chatterbox at first felt sure that bumfuzzled was a coinage of Clinton's, like (but more colorful than) Warren Harding's coinage of "normalcy."

  • Here is precisely what Clinton said (at an unrelated awards ceremony for "blue ribbon schools" at the Washington Hilton; interestingly, the transcription available on the White House Web site spells it "bum-fusseled," which is incorrect; Chatterbox here uses the text supplied by the Federal News Service, which spelled bumfuzzled correctly):

  • And a Sept. 9 AP story quotes George Beason, a member of the Alabama Space Science Exhibit Commission, saying, "I'm just bumfuzzled " that the U.S.


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