Muddled

The spirits muddled my brain.

His English has a murky, muddled sound to it, don't you think?

I'm ashamed to tell such a muddled story in this dreary, rainy season, but please bear with me for a while.

The hundreds of thousands of football fans visiting Brazil for the World Cup are consuming large quantities of caipirinhas, the national tipple based on muddled lime and the sugarcane-based spirit cachaça.

Alcohol muddled part of the man's brain that usually handles inhibitory actions.

Near-synonym: muddle-headed

Richardson took over, and Mitchell proceeded to the refreshment room in his turn, but when he came back some ten minutes later, it was evident that he had been indulging in something more potent than coffee, and he was in a very muddled state.

The selection of James Milner ahead of Young was the product of muddled thinking and the absence of Peter Crouch - with 22 goals in 42 England appearances - from even the substitutes' bench was also a surprise.