adv. [f. prec. + -LY2.] In a confusing manner.

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1863.  Dickens, Lett. (1880), II. 199. He feels the school to be confusingly large for him.

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1879.  Jefferies, Wild Life in S. Co., 326. The querulous cry of one [young robin] for food is confusingly like that of another.

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