bafflingly

English

Etymology

baffling +‎ -ly

Adverb

bafflingly (comparative more bafflingly, superlative most bafflingly)

1. In a baffling or puzzling manner.
   • 1931, H. P. Lovecraft, chapter 8, in The Whisperer in Darkness:

     As I tried to catch the words which the stoutly-fashioned floor so bafflingly intercepted, I was also conscious of a great deal of stirring and scratching and shuffling in the room below; so that I could not escape the impression that it was full of living beings—many more than the few whose speech I could single out.

   • 1974, Samuel Louis Goldberg, An Essay on King Lear‎^[1], →ISBN, page 162:

     To define is to specify, to trace limits; and whatever this 'something' is, it seems at once bafflingly specific and yet bafflingly without limits.