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Definition
to annoy or disturb
- Mr Bloom with his stick gently vexed the thick sand at his foot.Episode 13 — Nausicca (97% in)
- ...and health and also character besides which, the squandermania of the thing, fast women of the demimonde ran away with a lot of l s. d. into the bargain and the greatest danger of all was who you got drunk with though, touching the much vexed question of stimulants, he relished a glass of choice old wine in season as both nourishing and bloodmaking and possessing aperient virtues (notably a good burgundy which he was a staunch believer in) still never beyond a certain point where he...Episode 16 — Eumaeus (5% in)
There are no more uses of "vex" in Ulysses by James Joyce.
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