Sample Sentences forvex (editor-reviewed)
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The complicated math problem continued to vex the entire class until the teacher provided a clearer explanation of the formula.vex = frustrate
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It is a vexing problem.vexing = annoying
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I didn't mean to vex you and I only meant it for a joke. (source)vex = upset
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"What do they say?" asked Gandalf and Thorin together, a bit vexed perhaps that even Elrond should have found this out first, though really there had not been a chance before, and there would not have been another until goodness knows when. (source)vexed = annoyed
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But I have been vexed, because you wouldn't come. (source)
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VLADIMIR: (vexed). Then why do you always come crawling back? (source)
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When the white people found out she was telling lies and refused to fire the servants Molly vexed them and ... till they quit them-self. (source)vexed = annoyed
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Don't vex me about this, Ned, the stone has been set.† (source)
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NW: The answer is as vexing as it is predictable, Monsieur Boustouler.† (source)
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my how this woman vexes me! (source)vexes = annoys
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Thus, like the sad presaging raven, that tolls The sick man's passport in her hollow beak, And in the shadow of the silent night Doth shake contagion from her sable wings; Vex'd and tormented, runs poor Barrabas, With fatal curses towards these Christians.† (source)
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"Voilà ce qui est embatant," muttered Poirot vexedly.† (source)
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if the baron would sleep unvexed, the freeman must sit up all night after his day's work and whip the ponds to keep the frogs quiet;† (source)standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unvexed means not and reverses the meaning of vexed. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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Ever the hard unsunk ground, Ever the eaters and drinkers, ever the upward and downward sun, ever the air and the ceaseless tides, Ever myself and my neighbors, refreshing, wicked, real, Ever the old inexplicable query, ever that thorn'd thumb, that breath of itches and thirsts, Ever the vexer's hoot!† (source)
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Hath Cassius lived To be but mirth and laughter to his Brutus, When grief, and blood ill-tempered, vexeth him?† (source)standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-eth" is replaced by "-s", so that where they said "She vexeth" in older English, today we say "She vexes."
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how vexest thou this man?† (source)standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-est" is dropped, so that where they said "Thou vexest" in older English, today we say "You vex."
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