Both Uses of
vex
in
The Magic Mountain
- And he walked on, wearing those everlasting pastel checked trousers, leaving Hans Castorp behind, presumably "cut to the quick" by so much trenchant significance—and to some extent he was, although he was also vexed and amused by the notion that he was supposed to be.†
Chpt 6.1vexed = annoyed
- But he was vexed by objective problems as well, about which the cousins had already heard: the sort of sanatorium affair with which everyone was only all too familiar.†
Chpt 6.4 *
Definition:
to annoy, worry, or frustrate -- especially by being difficult or persistent