Definition of "flustered" []

• Confused, befuddled, in a state of panic by having become overwrought with confusion. (adjective)
• Simple past tense and past participle of fluster. (verb)

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• "The landlord indeed spoke a little thick, and the texts of Mr. Thomas Trumbull stumbled on his tongue; but Nanty was one of those topers, who, becoming early what bon vivants term flustered, remain whole nights and days at the same point of intoxication; and, in fact, as they are seldom entirely sober, can be as rarely seen absolutely drunk."
• "Nor does he seem to think before he answers questions or spews out a response in flustered nutty incoherence and therefore sets himself up for ridicule by the press."
• "Picking up where they left off last season as the NFL's No. 1 ranked defense, the Buccaneers again flustered Eagles star quarterback Donovan McNabb, who threw for just 148 yards and was intercepted once."