flummox

Subject

• question: Nothing looks more stupid than a candidate who is flummoxed by a question about their own work history.

Preposition: by

• question: Nothing looks more stupid than a candidate who is flummoxed by a question about their own work history.

Modifying Another Word

• somewhat: The small group waiting were somewhat flummoxed What to do?
• completely: If you still find yourself completely flummoxed, pay someone else to do the work for you.
• still: I'm still flummoxed as to what to do!
• totally: We were recently shown an issue of the New Yorker magazine and we were totally flummoxed thereby.
• so: Jo and I were so flummoxed by the whole place that at supper we just sat and gawped at the otherness of it all.
• n't: And hopefully the one-way system at the other end wo n't flummox me too much.