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Definition
to annoy or disturb
- But I have been vexed, because you wouldn't come.Chapter 23 (24% in)
vexed = annoyed
- There was such anguish in the gush of grief that accompanied this raving, that my compassion made me overlook its folly, and I drew off, half angry to have listened at all, and vexed at having related my ridiculous nightmare, since it produced that agony; though WHY was beyond my comprehension.Chapter 3 (76% in)
- A nothing vexed him; and suspected slights of his authority nearly threw him into fits.Chapter 5 (3% in)
- But as soon as she saw him vexed again, she kissed his hand, and said she would sing him to sleep.Chapter 5 (75% in)
- I own I did not like her, after infancy was past; and I vexed her frequently by trying to bring down her arrogance: she never took an aversion to me, though.Chapter 8 (28% in)
- She was vexed, but she did not proceed.Chapter 9 (40% in)
- Was he vexed at my bad humour this afternoon?Chapter 9 (63% in)
- He many a time spoke sternly to me about my pertness; and averred that the stab of a knife could not inflict a worse pang than he suffered at seeing his lady vexed.Chapter 10 (9% in)
- He looked vexed, and suggested the kitchen as a more suitable place for him.Chapter 10 (26% in)
- ...peculiarly wayward, rejecting her breakfast, complaining that the servants did not do what she told them; that the mistress would allow her to be nothing in the house, and Edgar neglected her; that she had caught a cold with the doors being left open, and we let the parlour fire go out on purpose to vex her, with a hundred yet more frivolous accusations, Mrs. Linton peremptorily insisted that she should get to bed; and, having scolded her heartily, threatened to send for the doctor.Chapter 10 (63% in)
- 'Don't vex me.Chapter 11 (32% in)
- Hereafter, we must be cautious how we vex her.'Chapter 12 (63% in)
- I was so vexed, I flung my tray and its contents on the ground; and then seated myself at the stairs'-head, hid my face in my hands, and cried.Chapter 13 (87% in)
- If a servant chanced to vex her, it was always — 'I shall tell papa!'Chapter 18 (6% in)
- I was much vexed at her and the servant for their mutual revelations; having no doubt of Linton's approaching arrival, communicated by the former, being reported to Mr. Heathcliff; and feeling as confident that Catherine's first thought on her father's return would be to seek an explanation of the latter's assertion concerning her rude-bred kindred.Chapter 18 (73% in)
- And I'll never — never — oh, never, while I have my senses, do an act or say a word to vex him.Chapter 22 (44% in)
- ...to weary myself with imagining some fit parentage for him; and, repeating my waking meditations, I tracked his existence over again, with grim variations; at last, picturing his death and funeral: of which, all I can remember is, being exceedingly vexed at having the task of dictating an inscription for his monument, and consulting the sexton about it; and, as he had no surname, and we could not tell his age, we were obliged to content ourselves with the single word, 'Heathcliff.'Chapter 34 (35% in)
There are no more uses of "vex" in Wuthering Heights.
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