For God's sake, why do people keep using 'bemused' as if it means 'amused'? asked the bemused editor.
To confuse or bewilder, especially regarding emotional matters, for example: "For Gods sake, why do people keep using bemused as if it means amused?" asked the bemused editor
If you are bemused, you are puzzled or confused. He was rather bemused by children Mr. Sebastian was looking at the boys with a bemused expression. = bewildered + bemusedly be·mus·ed·ly He was staring bemusedly at the picture of himself. looking as if you are confused = bewildered (MUSE)
deeply absorbed in thought; "as distant and bemused as a professor listening to the prattling of his freshman class"; "lost in thought"; "a preoccupied frown