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- verb Present participle of
vex .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective extremely annoying or displeasing
- adjective causing irritation or annoyance
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Examples
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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.
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What I find vexing is the PM’s view that he should be screened from meeting people who disagree with him.
Bigotgate – the Diversity Trainers nightmare. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2010
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Even more vexing is the fact that much of Shelley's thinking about sexuality derives from the Greeks (see
The Uses and Abuses of Historicism: Halperin and Shelley on the Otherness of Ancient Greek Sexuality 2006
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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.
The Whole Works of the Rev. John Howe, M.A. with a Memoir of the Author. Vol. VI. 1630-1705 1822
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Related: Illinois 'MAP grant dilemma vexing students
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If you cannot avoid calling a vexing method, catch its vexing exceptions.
MSDN Blogs 2008
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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.
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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.
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Marasha said the misuse of government vehicles was "vexing".
pqnga commented on the word vexing
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.
March 28, 2011