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Definition

to annoy or disturb

vexing = annoying

the chronic diseases which vex mankind
Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.
Leonardo da Vinci
But this sort of thing seems done on purpose to vex us.
Tolstoy, Leo -- War and Peace
It was no longer amusing to vex Mr. Casaubon
Eliot, George -- Middlemarch
And I'll never - never - oh, never, while I have my senses, do an act or say a word to vex him.
Bronte, Emily -- Wuthering Heights
They vex me past my patience.
Shakespeare, William -- King Henry VIII
...a company of shouting cat-birds comes also to the tree, and vexed by their fluttering and lawlessness the solemn heron goes away.
Sarah Jewett -- A White Heron

vexed = annoyed

"No, indeed, you shall not," said Lucy, much vexed.
George Eliot -- The Mill on the Floss

vexed = annoyed

He looked so vexed at the idea, that Alice changed the subject hastily.
Lewis Carroll -- Through the Looking-Glass

vexed = annoyed

But I have been vexed, because you wouldn't come.
Emily Bronte -- Wuthering Heights

vexed = annoyed

vexed = annoyed

VLADIMIR: (vexed). Then why do you always come crawling back?
Samuel Beckett -- Waiting for Godot

vexed = annoyed

vexing = annoying

It vexed him the more, because he could have sworn, were such a thing possible, that he recognized the voices of the minister and Deacon Gookin,
Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Young Goodman Brown

vexed = annoyed

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.
Ernest J. Gaines -- The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman

vexed = annoyed

vexes = annoys

This vexed me and the lesson always ended in a one-sided boxing match.
Helen Keller -- Story of My Life

vexed = frustrated (annoyed)

A trespass that doth vex my grieved soul;
Shakespeare, William -- King Richard II
It would vex me, indeed, to see you again the dupe of Miss Bingley's pretended regard.
Austen, Jane -- Pride and Prejudice

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