confounded

Confused, astonished.

The media is very confounded right now. They're very confused. They don't know whether to trash themselves, trash their colleagues, or what.

Reagan has famously stumped his chroniclers. His official biographer, Edmund Morris, was so confounded by the assignment that he resorted to fiction, producing a muddled portrait of “Dutch” (Reagan’s longtime nickname) that was blasted by reviewers.

Defeated, thwarted.

Nine times the Space that measures Day and Night To mortal men, he with his horrid crew Lay vanquisht, rowling in the fiery Gulfe Confounded though immortal: […]

Extremely bad; very unpleasant; used as an intensifier.

The confounded thing doesn't work.

"This is all stuff and nonsense," said the king; "I shall have to go myself, if we are to get this confounded whistle from him."