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VEXED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Causing difficulty in finding an answer or solution; much disputed
Example:
we live in vexed and troubled times
Classified under:
Similar:
difficult; hard (not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Troubled persistently especially with petty annoyances
Example:
the vexed parents of an unruly teenager
Synonyms:
annoyed; harassed; harried; pestered; vexed
Classified under:
Similar:
troubled (characterized by or indicative of distress or affliction or danger or need)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb vex
Context examples:
If I should go out of this Palace my people would soon discover I am not a Wizard, and then they would be vexed with me for having deceived them.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
I have never been able, continued Lucy, to give him my picture in return, which I am very much vexed at, for he has been always so anxious to get it!
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
Also, there were comings and goings, and the erstwhile placid atmosphere of the cabin was vexed with strange perturbations and unrest.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
Truth to say, our ears have just been vexed by the doings of the same company, and I have even now made vow to hang the man who held the rank of captain over it.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I have a rosy sky and a green flowery Eden in my brain; but without, I am perfectly aware, lies at my feet a rough tract to travel, and around me gather black tempests to encounter.' You ran downstairs and demanded of Mrs. Fairfax some occupation: the weekly house accounts to make up, or something of that sort, I think it was. I was vexed with you for getting out of my sight.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
No serious quarrel had ever vexed the serenity of the party; and, now that each had sixteen hundred dollars to show for a short summer's work, there reigned the well-fed, contented spirit of prosperity.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
He had before served me a scurvy trick, which set the queen a-laughing, although at the same time she was heartily vexed, and would have immediately cashiered him, if I had not been so generous as to intercede.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
It vexed her to see him expose himself to such a man.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
I think her as beautiful as an angel, and I am so vexed with the men for not admiring her!
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
She was almost vexed into displeasure and anger against Edmund.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
