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Vexed

adjective
1.
Troubled persistently especially with petty annoyances.  Synonyms: annoyed, harassed, harried, pestered.  "A harried expression" , "Her poor pestered father had to endure her constant interruptions" , "The vexed parents of an unruly teenager"
2.
Causing difficulty in finding an answer or solution; much disputed.  "We live in vexed and troubled times"


Vex

verb
(past & past part. vexed; pres. part. vexing)
1.
Cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations.  Synonyms: annoy, bother, chafe, devil, get at, get to, gravel, irritate, nark, nettle, rag, rile.  "It irritates me that she never closes the door after she leaves"
2.
Disturb the peace of mind of; afflict with mental agitation or distress.  Synonym: worry.  Antonym: reassure.
3.
Change the arrangement or position of.  Synonyms: agitate, commove, disturb, raise up, shake up, stir up.
4.
Subject to prolonged examination, discussion, or deliberation.
5.
Be a mystery or bewildering to.  Synonyms: amaze, baffle, beat, bewilder, dumbfound, flummox, get, gravel, mystify, nonplus, perplex, pose, puzzle, stick, stupefy.  "Got me--I don't know the answer!" , "A vexing problem" , "This question really stuck me"



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"Vexed" Quotes from Famous Books



... gave her assent and Roger fell to work briskly, laughing now and again to himself in a half vexed way. Sooner than he had dared hope, Charley and Felicia appeared. Leaving Felicia to watch the burros, Roger led Charley into the living tent and gave the details of his predicament. Charley laughed quietly but ...
— The Forbidden Trail • Honore Willsie
... little mansion had its fill of sunshine; The western windows overlooked the Hudson Where the great city's traffic vexed the tide; The front received the Orient's early flush. Here dwelt three beings, who the neighbors said Were husband, wife, and daughter; and indeed There was no sign that they were otherwise. Their name was Percival; they lived ...
— The Woman Who Dared • Epes Sargent
... my uncle's death, and the opening of the will, with a degree of coarse humor that I had not expected from him, and, vexed as I was, I could not help joining in the laugh, for I have always relished a joke, even though made at my own expense. He went on to speak of my various pursuits; my strolling freak, and that somewhat nettled me. At length he talked of my parents. He ridiculed my father: ...
— Tales of a Traveller • Washington Irving
... Browning, the bank-clerk, he was vexed that his son should show so little caution as to load himself up with an invalid wife, and he cut off the allowance, declaring that if a man was old enough to marry, he was also old enough to care for himself. He did, however, make ...
— Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 5 (of 14) • Elbert Hubbard
... Pilate was vexed, and answered impatiently, 'What I have written I have written!' They were likewise anxious that the cross of our Lord should not be higher than those of the two thieves, but it was necessary for it to be so, because there would otherwise not have ...
— The Dolorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ • Anna Catherine Emmerich


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