1. in a way that is bewildering, perplexing, or difficult to understand or explain

Examples

• The instructions were confoundingly vague and left everyone unsure how to proceed.
• She gave a confoundingly contradictory answer that made the situation worse.
• The results were confoundingly inconsistent with our earlier findings.
• He spoke in a confoundingly complex manner that few could follow.
• The software behaves confoundingly on some devices but works fine on others.
• The witness's testimony was confoundingly unclear about the timeline of events.