Слово "muddle". Англо-русский словарь Мюллера

In detective books-yes. But life-real life-is always full of muddle.

What’s more,’ he added, ‘Cordelia’s got me so muddled I don’t know what’s in the catechism and what she’s invented.’

He rode every morning to the mines too, and drove into Slane once a week, and indeed there was a fixed routine of living that pleased the coachman after so long a spate of muddle and disorder.

'Well, they must have made a mistake. They were in a hurry, obviously there was some muddle.

"There is no such thing as muddle - obscurity, yes, but muddle can exist only in a disorderly brain."

"A History of Railways"; I had to read a great number of Russian and foreign books, pamphlets, and articles in the magazines, to make calculations, to refer to logarithms, to think and to write; then again to read, calculate, and think; but as soon as I took up a book or began to think, my thoughts were in a muddle, my eyes began blinking, I would get up from the table with a sigh and begin walking about the big rooms of my deserted country-house.

Then he got muddled; the twins shook their heads and pointed at each other and the crowd laughed.

For some reason, blinded perhaps by her interests, this possibility had never occurred to her; and now, her wits muddled by a terrible fear, she could hardly be prevented from turning the girl out of the house at once.

Children are children, but they can spot an evasion quicker than adults, and evasion simply muddles ‘em.

The history of the Galaxy has got a little muddled, for a number of reasons: partly because those who are trying to keep track of it have got a little muddled, but also because some very muddling things have been happening anyway.