Definitions
Wiktionary
- v. present participle of vex.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. extremely annoying or displeasing
- adj. causing irritation or annoyance
Examples
“Further vexing is that it is quite apparent that we have some greedy health care corporations that take advantage of our health care system.”
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“The attitude of Fascism toward certain vexing questions can best he understood by a perusual of quotations from the speeches and writings of the Fascist leader, II Duce, as Mussolini is known to his partisans.”
“What I find vexing is the PM’s view that he should be screened from meeting people who disagree with him.”
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“Even more vexing is the fact that much of Shelley's thinking about sexuality derives from the Greeks (see”
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“It is a great matter God hath against us, when he hath this to charge us with, namely the vexing of his Spirit.”
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“Related: Illinois 'MAP grant dilemma vexing students”
“If you cannot avoid calling a vexing method, catch its vexing exceptions.”
“Ten minutes before the closing bell, a "vexing" out-of-the-money trade went through on the American Stock Exchange on options of the drugstore chain, said Rebecca Engmann Darst, an equity-options analyst at Interactive Brokers.”
“For Wordsworth, "vexing" crosses the boundaries between physical commotion and mental flurry, and between things as they are and things as they could be recreated.”
“Marasha said the misuse of government vehicles was "vexing".”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘vexing’.
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jaydrox's list
Mah list!
mediocracy, captivatingly, devastatingly, dazedly, heavenly, flawless, copious, conviction, synoptic, amalgamation, prefatory, precursory and 150 more...
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cuzican's Words
lexicon, tirade, innocuous, apathy, narcissist, subtle, agnostic, plethora, malleable, catalyst, pithy, irate and 116 more...
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xyzprincess's Words
crabwise, virtu, peripatetic, idyll, trencherman, equivocate, flummery, hoi polloi, pixilated, albatross, wangle, bodacious and 170 more...
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btkuhn's list
persnickety, perspicuity, perspicacity, augur, churlish, enervate, schadenfreude, esoteric, lionize, dispositive, capricious, bibulous and 129 more...
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suzyg's Words
brandish, recompence, shopping, dichotomy, paradigm, reverse osmosis, anyway, despite, drunk, degenerate, insipid, grateful and 438 more...
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New Words
smarmy, purge, linger, shimmer, fiercely, frantically, shove, grunt, errand, clench, wriggle, squeeze and 168 more...
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lil_grammar_nazi's list
Main list
acerbic, spiteful, vindictive, curmudgeon, dog in the manger, pious, histrionic, unprecedented, bumptious, abscond, abject, accost and 161 more...
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Random words
contemplative, futile, leverage, frustration, volatile, brittleness, frenetic, vexing, suffocating, squeamish, emanating, leeway
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2011 August
cajolery, vexing, irk, grindstone, millstone, candid, subterfuge, culprit, arraigned, faltering, modicum, surmise and 58 more...
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anaisabbzug's list
my first list...
i shall break it out into various categories at a later date...syzygy, flouncy, irregardless, lascivious, rutting, incorrigible, ennui, ineffably, unflagging, scarlet, missive, vernacular and 48 more...
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ataferner's list
just words
cathect, erudition, lasciviousness, lucite, antediluvian, duplicity, tautology, prestidigitation, sapiosexual, vorpal, vulpine, vexing
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QueenMab07's Words
virago, indigo, corporeal, ravenclaw, queen, water, voyager, wherefore, whereas, forsooth, indeed, chocolate and 73 more...
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SAT Words That Mean 'Unpleasant'
A list of negative SAT words that mean 'unpleasant.' Based on Gruber's SAT Word Master word list. Categorizing words according to meaning can help you to memorize more effectively.
callous, cantankerous, captious, churlish, contentious, gruff, irascible, ireful, obstinate, ornery, peevish, perverse and 5 more...
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dustym's Words
coterminus, agitprop, anathema, pointillism, certitude, bivouac, sclerotic, penultimate, svengali, hypercorrection, fantods, ineffable and 15 more...
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just because
These are words I am picking just because I like them.
I might make more categorized lists later, we shall have to wait and see.animated, asperger, ersatz, surreptitious, extraneous, asynchronous, erroneous, surreal, dreamlike, lackadaisical, opium, firnification and 55 more...
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breesays's Words
audacity, intoxicated, vexing, hyperbole, neurotic, meteoric, mercurial, malicious, solicit, affliction, aura, effervescent and 50 more...
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pqnga One of the more vexing problems most managers face every day is how to get involved in the work of their people without doing the work themselves or micromanaging those doing it. Mar 27, 2011