muddlement
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The state of being muddled or the act of muddling; confusion; disorganization.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "I am lost in my own muddlement; and whereabouts the right place is, and how I am to get myself back into it, as I am a living sinner is more than I know!"
- "You may heap muddlement upon muddlement; and, with a free people, though much mischief is done and much good prevented, still they work on steadily , each man in his private capacity doing something to retrieve the effects of bad or of indolent government."
- "I have stated that some of our protestant writers are muddled. I begin with one who is muddlement and nothing else; muddlement not merely by nature but by choice; muddlement as a religion, a philosophy, and an ethical code."
- "The Opposition was charging the Government with muddlement and with mismanagement."
- "At best, words are fumbled but somewhat redeemed with an accepted frustration and shrugs, and at worst, phrases, punctuated with grimaced muddlements, simply fail."