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Definition
to annoy or disturb
- She was vexed.Chapter 6 (92% in)
- For a year Vida loved Carol, longed to and did not pry into the details of her relations with Kennicott, enjoyed her spirit of play as expressed in childish tea-parties, and, with the mystic bond between them forgotten, was healthily vexed by Carol's assumption that she was a sociological messiah come to save Gopher Prairie.Chapter 21 (38% in)
- In the afternoon, when she went to Oleson & McGuire's (formerly Dahl & Oleson's), Carol was vexed by the assumption of the youthful clerk, recently come from the farm, that he had to be neighborly and rude.Chapter 24 (3% in)
There are no more uses of "vex" in Main Street.
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