vex

• It was the one topic on which her own feelings of propriety, as well as those of the dauphin, coincided with the suggestions of the aunts, and she did not desire to vex or provoke the empress by a prolonged discussion of the question; but the charge of coldness to her own countrymen she denied earnestly. —  The Life of Marie Antoinette
• For this they have alleged no authority but his mention of “the still-vex'd Bermoothes.” —  Shakespeare His Life Art And Characters
• Ariel's trip from “the deep nook to fetch dew from the still-vex'd Bermoothes” does indeed show that the Bermudas were in the Poet's mind; but then it also shows that his scene was not there; for it had been no feat at all worth mentioning for Ariel to fetch dew from one part of the Bermudas to another. —  Shakespeare His Life Art And Characters
• Obvious English borrowings from Latin vexāre ` to harass 'are VEX ` to irritate, to annoy' and its derivatives VEXATIONS and VEXATIOUS. —  VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IX No 3
• 1964 a magazine contest for the shortest ended in a tie at 28 letters: Waltz, nymph, for quick jigs vex Bud; and slightly more obscure, Blowzy frights vex, and jump quick. —  VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol II No 4

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