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Example sentences for "confoundedly"

Lexicographically close words:
confort; conforte; confound; confounde; confounded; confounding; confounds; confraternities; confraternity; confrere
  1. I presume I regret it, because it lessens the glory of Natural Selection, and is so confoundedly doubtful.

  2. She's so confoundedly respectful--acts as if I were a little tin god.

  3. But, Dean, there's some confoundedly funny things happening around here.

  4. Come now, Ave, don't be so confoundedly hard on me.

  5. If you only knew how confoundedly miserable I feel.

  6. They have waxed this floor so confoundedly that one cannot help it,' he returned smoothly, and with a smile that rivalled Mephistopheles.

  7. Word over the sea travels so confoundedly slow; I have heard nothing for two months.

  8. What in thunder was there about that to make a man feel so confoundedly well satisfied?

  9. He could not very well tell her that she was too confoundedly good-looking to be alone in Paris.

  10. He had been so confoundedly self-satisfied and content because she was here with him, where heretofore he had always been alone, that he had gone stony blind to her comfort.

  11. This confoundedly good-natured, self-satisfied crowd moving in couples irritated him.

  12. I've taken a bed for the night, because I feel confoundedly tired after last night's run.

  13. When we had finished, I do not know how Forrest felt, but I was confoundedly drowsy.

  14. In fact, so confoundedly quarrelsome did he wax that it became a source of wonder how Fordham stood it so equably, and at last some one said so.

  15. If you were on good terms, I should consider you a most confoundedly unnatural pair; but standing towards each other as you do, I took upon you as a couple of devilish deep-thoughted fellows, who may be reasoned with to any extent.

  16. And hard it is upon the part of the law that it should be so confoundedly down upon us unfortunate victims; when it takes such amazing good interest for itself from all its clients.

  17. Of course she wants to present her; but it's confoundedly inconvenient this year.

  18. You've managed her confoundedly ill, my lady, to bring all this about.

  19. He 's too confoundedly all of one piece; he won't throw overboard a grain of the cargo to save the rest.

  20. A sculptor is such a confoundedly special genius; there are so few subjects he can treat, so few things in life that bear upon his work, so few moods in which he himself is inclined to it.

  21. I myself have got so confoundedly wise with my many years, that I have nothing left to learn.

  22. There is something confoundedly wrong somewhere, and I should like to find out what it is.

  23. The mere idea that it may be lead makes me confoundedly uncomfortable, yet I've got the conviction that I shall know before long.

  24. I never dropped one in my life, but I have always thought I might, and it's so confoundedly dangerous if you do.

  25. I really believe I'm half crazed on the subject of that confoundedly elusive Golconda.

  26. I understand one thing, Honora, that you're too confoundedly clever for me," he declared.

  27. It's confoundedly silly to get frightened that way," he declared.

  28. Why he should be so confoundedly anxious about my welfare I can't make out--I can't, really.

  29. I've always been confoundedly obstinate; I admit that.

  30. And they think they're so confoundedly sharp.

  31. I'll be confoundedly glad to get this shoe off, and try what sponging will do.

  32. It was wrong, of course, confoundedly unkind,--humiliating for you.

  33. I say, you are uncivil, and confoundedly unpolite, madam.

  34. Lord Pembroke, who married a Philadelphian, is quoted as saying that the Curzon is the most democratic club in a too confoundedly democratic country.

  35. It will be a confoundedly hampering affair.

  36. All I can say is, it's most confoundedly unpleasant.

  37. You are like your father--and as confoundedly hard to do a favor to," he said.

  38. It is confoundedly hard on an unfortunate and innocent man!

  39. Both of them must be confoundedly hard hit," he murmured to himself; "I never knew Densham turn nasty before.

  40. What he had said of his friends he could have said with equal truth of himself: he was confoundedly hard hit.

  41. When this was reported to Sheridan, his comment was, “I think that confoundedly ungrateful, for I went to see Cumberland’s last tragedy and laughed heartily at it all the way through.

  42. If so--in spite of rapturous moments--it was a confoundedly uncomfortable state of being.

  43. Why the devil was life such a confoundedly complex affair?

  44. I wish it would put a little into her heart," said Godfrey: "she's grown confoundedly dull of late.

  45. I feel confoundedly stupid, and the uproar that you have been making for the last hour at the door has given me an awful headache.


  46. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "confoundedly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.