bewilderedly

adv

1. In a bewildered manner; with puzzlement.

   “Carlen was crying bitterly; the letter was just ended, when Alf came into the room asking bewilderedly what it was all about.”

   “He said good night and left her wondering bewilderedly what strange thing her dad would do next.”

   “But Lend-Lease generosity made Franklin Roosevelt so popular with the dictators that, when Wendell Willkie ran against him, a nephew of Carias Andino asked bewilderedly: "Why doesn't Roosevelt have him shot?"”

   “Once, this neo-Gothic landmark in Chelsea was the Church of the Holy Communion. . . . A decade later, it was Limelight, the nightclub-slash-den of depravity. . . . Today that fabled nightclub is a mall. . . . Entering by a side door, one young woman patently ignorant of the place’s tainted past, glanced around bewilderedly. “I thought that this was a house of God,” she murmured.”