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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.
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



... running by the side of Dubuche, who came at the fag-end, very vexed at not having had another quarter of an hour to finish a ...
— His Masterpiece • Emile Zola
... every name he called, came back to him. "I never met with such insolence," said he, "but I'll revenge myself;" and he ran up and down among the trees, trying to find the supposed offender, but he could see no one. Vexed and disappointed, he hastened home and told his mother that a bad boy had hidden in the woods and called him all sorts ...
— The Pearl Box - Containing One Hundred Beautiful Stories for Young People • "A Pastor"
... to the young lady in surprise, and there was something in Georg's manner that vexed her. Peter took little notice of Henrica; he was talking with Van Hout about the letters from the Glippers asking a surrender, three of which had already been brought into the city, of the uncertain disposition of some members of the council and the ...
— Uarda • Georg Ebers
... of arriving," went on Monsieur Vaucher. "I come to tell Madame how the ground lies in this city. It is, you see, a place vexed with various politics, an arena of trivialities. In other words, Madame, the best place in the world for ...
— The Second Class Passenger • Perceval Gibbon
... made Parting to-day a double pain: First because it was parting; next Because the ill it ended vexed And mocked me from the past again. Not as what had been remedied Had I gone on,—not that, ah no! But ...
— Aspects of Literature • J. Middleton Murry


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