As long as there is one befuddled brigade commander issuing statements, he will be threatening violence.
It can be befuddled by drink or misguided by youth and inexperience.
Infected with gold fever, people were incapable of attaching any credence to timely warnings - the supposed prospect of fabulous wealth simply befuddled their senses.
It is purely and simply befuddled, bureaucratic arrogance.
Anyone who tries to discover exactly what will happen will find himself befogged and befuddled by this situation.
That is all it means, so do not let us get befuddled about the word "sincere" and think it means something holy.
They are right not to do so, because they would become completely befuddled.
This has befuddled juries between a decision on obscenity and a decision on the public good.