adv. [f. prec. + -LY2.] In a bewildered manner; in uncertainty as to one’s way or perceptions.

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1820.  Miss. St. Gaz., 26 Aug., 3/4. He … looked bewilderedly, first on his mother’s face.

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1846.  [R. F. Williams], Sir R. de Coverley, I. 20. The fox … speeding bewilderedly away.

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1885.  A. Forbes, Souvenirs (1894), 114. Their ‘manner’—one finds one asking oneself bewilderedly how or whence they get it.

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