Periodic reminder that you should probably not use the words "bemused" or "quizzical" in your writing unless you don't care to distinguish been these two conditions.
The reason: "bemused" sounds like it means what "quizzical" actually* means and "quizzical" sounds like it means what "bemused" actually means.
Enough people know the dictionary definitions of these words that you can't confidently know if they are trying to mean the thing each word sounds like it means or the dictionary definition, and it's not usually the kind of thing you can work out from context, so best to use words that aren't halfway through a semantic shift 😉
*Words mean what people think they mean and there is no objective true definition here, but one definition has historical weight to it and feels more official as the definition doesn't originate from basically a mistake.
