Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a vexing manner; so as to vex, tease, or irritate.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a vexing manner; so as to vex, tease, or irritate.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In a
vexing manner.
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Examples
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One of the finest realizations of a vexingly problematic classic in recent seasons.
How I Voted for the Tony Awards Terry Teachout 2011
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One of the finest realizations of a vexingly problematic classic in recent seasons.
How I Voted for the Tony Awards Terry Teachout 2011
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The mysterious, vexingly delicious smell of maple syrup that has been terrorizing New Yorkers for years, wafting about on its mysterious errands, has been run to ground.
Boing Boing 2009
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Because, as I write ad infinitum, it is vexingly difficult to distinguish levels of will and choice, except at the extremes of the continuum where pure freedom and pure slavery supposedly exist.
Demand: Clients who want to know who’s free « Bound, Not Gagged 2008
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Because, as I write ad infinitum, it is vexingly difficult to distinguish levels of will and choice, except at the extremes of the continuum where pure freedom and pure slavery supposedly exist.
Demand: Clients who want to know who’s free « Bound, Not Gagged 2008
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But retinoic acid, researchers had found, was a vexingly unreliable reagent.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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But retinoic acid, researchers had found, was a vexingly unreliable reagent.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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But retinoic acid, researchers had found, was a vexingly unreliable reagent.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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The factory-farm connection was a "wild theory" propelled though the vexingly "unsubstantiated" Internet and drowning out "sound science."
David Kirby: Reuters Mangles Flu Story and Blasts "Wild Theories" About "Evil Factory Farms" 2009
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Scholars have documented the inexorable effect...... the vexingly exorable effect...
Obama's insipid emails are annoying Leon Wieseltier. Ann Althouse 2009
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