All 3 Uses of
vex
in
Main Street, by Sinclair Lewis
- She was vexed.†
Chpt 6 *vexed = annoyed
- 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.†
Chpt 21
- 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.†
Chpt 24
Definition:
to annoy, worry, or frustrate -- especially by being difficult or persistent