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VEXATIOUS
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Causing irritation or annoyance
Example:
it is vexing to have to admit you are wrong
Synonyms:
annoying; bothersome; galling; irritating; nettlesome; pesky; pestering; pestiferous; plaguey; plaguy; teasing; vexatious; vexing
Classified under:
Similar:
disagreeable (not to your liking)
Context examples:
In his departure Sir Thomas felt the chief interest: wanting to be alone with his family, the presence of a stranger superior to Mr. Yates must have been irksome; but of him, trifling and confident, idle and expensive, it was every way vexatious.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Mr. Yates might consider it only as a vexatious interruption for the evening, and Mr. Rushworth might imagine it a blessing; but every other heart was sinking under some degree of self-condemnation or undefined alarm, every other heart was suggesting, What will become of us? what is to be done now?
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
