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Meanings of vexing in English

Causing irritation or annoyance.

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      Extremely annoying or displeasing.

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            Usage of vexing in English
            1
            Lucy took no note of this vexing phenomenon and continued to speak:
            Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters
            2
            The truly vexing problems are turning out to be the medical ones.
            The new yorker
            3
            The builders have moved on to the vexing problem of my freezer.
            The Intimate Adventures of a London Call Girl
            4
            Great Britain's successes in the Games of the 29th Olympiad were vexing.
            The Guardian
            5
            But of the two the form of Hameed remains the more vexing.
            The Guardian
            6
            The question of speedy versus delayed publication is a very vexing one.
            History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria in the ...
            7
            It was vexing his having moved round the corner, into North Street.
            All Roads Lead to Calvary
            8
            He wondered if he were still vexing his soul over the irrevocable.
            The Tidal Wave and Other Stories
            9
            Stop your greeting, Callum, and not be vexing our friends the gentlemen.
            John Splendid: The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars...
            10
            I shall determine den more perfectly dis vexing subject of your sanity.
            Miriam Monfort / A Novel
            11
            At any rate, there was no use vexing herself about Arthur now.
            Janet's Love and Service
            12
            Brendan Gleeson plays a decent priest confronted with a vexing moral dilemma.
            The Irish Times
            13
            Once again, archaeologists run into a vexing lack of artefacts showing this.
            BBC
            14
            You just don't understand how vexing it can be, being a God.
            The Tarn of Eternity
            15
            That way, we hope, the vexing problem of freedom and security will disappear.
            The Guardian
            16
            Legal issues might be almost as vexing as technical ones, some experts believe.
            Reuters
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