mused's Usage Examples:

"Well, I'll be damned," mused Sam.

Her voice was soft as she mused to herself.

"But in case it does …" "Right," Damian said, not amused by the cryptic responses.

It was then he began the slow realization that it was not his beloved wife who spooned against his back in nakedness, sharing his bed!"I wonder what they do with the holes," Fred mused as he spooned his breakfast and poured a glass of milk for Donnie.

He took a sip of his coffee, watching her over the rim of the cup with an amused expression.

"Good you have a talent, or your skinny hide would be in trouble," Speck replied, amused.

I amused myself one winter day with sliding this piecemeal across the pond, nearly half a mile, skating behind with one end of a log fifteen feet long on my shoulder, and the other on the ice; or I tied several logs together with a birch withe, and then, with a longer birch or alder which had a hook at the end, dragged them across.

She amused herself with the beads until dinner-time, bringing the strings to me now and then for my approval.

It was hard to tell whether the sarcasm had gone over his head or he simply wasn't amused.

"You sound pretty convinced," he said, bemused.

"I suppose this means it's inappropriate to fill Fred in on what happened at the Lucky Pup," Cynthia mused as they climbed the steps to Bird Song.

He glanced at his uncle, bemused.

Bemused tourists watched 450 Microsoft employees, customers and guests file into London 's Equinox Club.

Synonyms:

contemplate, meditate, ponder, ruminate, mull over, theologise, cogitate, reflect, speculate, puzzle, theologize, think, chew over, wonder, mull, bethink, excogitate, think over, introspect, question, study, cerebrate, premeditate, consider,

Antonyms:

sour, certainty, answer, dissociate, disrespect,