confoundingly

/kənˈfaʊndɪŋli/
adverb
  1. In a way that causes confusion or surprise; puzzlingly.
    • The answer was confoundingly simple, yet no one had thought of it.
    • She confoundingly refused the promotion, even though she had worked hard for it.
    • The two accounts of the event were confoundingly different from each other.
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