Lexicographical Neighbors of Plussed
Literary usage of Plussed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1836)
"The Mayor was non-plussed—and the coal man went twanging on his ways. The officer
could no more stand his logic than his opponent could his horn. ..."
2. Animal Behaviour by Conwy Lloyd Morgan (1908)
"The dog followed the old course (the short cut to the left) and was completely
non-plussed, searching that side,-then more widely, and not finding the ball ..."
3. William Winston Seaton of the "National Intelligencer".: A Biographical Sketch by Josephine Seaton (1871)
"... with astonishment at the coincident deaths, Jefferson's letters, and the
deductions drawn by Mr. Little, they were ' plussed, — I may say non-plussed. ..."
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