He could stay awake for only a few hours at a time, and he was easily confused.

NEWYORKER: Boss Rail

My child is easily confused and becomes easily distressed.

BBC: Disability care: Your stories

But there is also a prevalent attitude call it religious correctness with which genuine toleration is easily confused: a polite and well-meaning reluctance to engage believers in the sort of robust clash of ideas that might discomfit them.

ECONOMIST: Religion and science

"One Man" has its own loose versions of those characters transposed into 1960s England, plus a goofy harlequin type in the lead: Francis Henshall (James Corden), an easily confused young man who has created a jam by employing himself as a gofer to two separate men at the same time.

WSJ: One Spring, Two Farces