“She looked perplexedly at the raw meat her waiter had set in front of her.”

“I stared perplexedly for a full minute before I rediscovered my wits and jumped in surprise.”

“Both of them stopped their quarrel suddenly and looked at me perplexedly.”

“Even after months of debate, the statement was vague and perplexingly non-committal on whether war would be justified.”

“In practice, the biographer has to choose not between lively and dull, but more subtly and perplexingly, between candid and glib.”

“This is done usually at the behest of central bankers who are still somewhat perplexingly attached to strong currencies at all costs.”