vexing in English

verb
1
make (someone) feel annoyed, frustrated, or worried, especially with trivial matters.
the memory of the conversation still vexed him
synonyms:annoyirritateangerinfuriateexasperateirkgallpiqueput outantagonizenettleget on someone's nervesruffle someone's feathersrattle someone's cagemake someone's hackles riserub the wrong wayaggravatepeevemiffrileneedleget (to)bugget someone's goatget someone's back upget someone's dander uptee offtick offburn uprankle

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Below are sample sentences containing the word "vexing" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "vexing", or refer to the context using the word "vexing" in the English Dictionary.

1. particularly vexing aspects of modern life.

2. I found their attitude extremely vexing.

3. Today, I have a vexing question.

4. There remains, however, another and more vexing problem.

5. You take delight in vexing me.

6. Then there is the vexing question of genetic engineering.

7. Another problem vexing the relief effort is lawlessness.

8. AsiaSurf is a simple, elegant solution to a vexing software problem.

9. It's as vexing as the riddle of the Sphinx.

10. No one doubts that this is both morally vexing and economically inefficient.

11. How far they might go to stop this remains a vexing question.

12. Now new synthetic polymers and composites may help to alleviate these vexing problems.

13. It is really vexing to have to wait a long time for anyone.

14. Absenteeism has long been a vexing and frustrating issue for educators

15. Hecklers in the crowd asked irrelevant questions for the sole purpose of vexing the speaker.

16. Lent was also the season when the Church confronted perhaps its most vexing intellectual challenge.

17. It is vexing to have to wait a long time for him.

18. Antonyms for Becalming include agitating, discomposing, disquieting, disturbing, perturbing, upsetting, vexing, distressing, exciting and irritating

19. Synonyms for Bothersome include aggravating, annoying, vexatious, vexing, exasperating, galling, irritating, distressing, irksome and maddening

20. Taylor put Gantt to work on a vexing problem grown out of the metal-cutting experiments.

21. Synonyms for Aggravating include annoying, bothersome, vexatious, vexing, exasperating, galling, irritating, grating, infuriating and irksome

22. Synonyms for Affronting include insulting, offending, outraging, slighting, provoking, piquing, vexing, wounding, displeasing and hurting

23. But rendering attention to these vexing questions is prudent and the right thing to do.

24. You take delight in vexing me. You have no compassion on my poor nerves.

25. However, the vexing issue of Japan's inability to secure revision of the unequal treaties created considerable controversy.

26. The problem was considered particularly vexing because, as the research of contemporaries showed, it affected middle class women most.

27. I would be most interested in what readers and teams think of these ideas for a progressive solution to a vexing problem.

28. Never in recent history has there been a political figure as vexing within his own party as President Clinton.

29. Falun Gong's decision to stage demonstrations here has created a vexing dilemma for Hong Kong officials and business leaders.

30. As their brilliant performance in the Gulf War later demonstrated so vividly, our new management system corrected that vexing problem.

31. One vexing problem is the inconsistency of the red tape that ensnares businessmen when they try to do practically anything.

32. Superlative in its natural beauty, rugged, vexing, complex and slightly nerve-racking, Bolivia is one of South America’s most diverse and intriguing nations.

33. Barrator (plural Barrators) One who is guilty of barratry, vexing others with frequent and often groundless lawsuits; a brangler and pettifogger

34. With these new molecules from nature scientists hope to combat one of the most uncomfortable and vexing problems in medicine more effectively.

35. Managing Bubbie is the family memoir by grandson Russel Lazega that recounts the vexing days in the 1980's when his family banded together to attempt the insurmountable

36. Bothersome: 1 adj causing irritation or annoyance “aircraft noise is particularly Bothersome near the airport” Synonyms: annoying , galling , irritating , nettlesome , pesky , pestering , pestiferous , plaguey , plaguy , teasing , vexatious , vexing disagreeable not to your liking

37. China and the United States are working together to find solutions to some of the more "vexing problems" that confront the Northeast Asian region, Steinberg said of the upcoming security talks.

38. It is particularly employed in field-specific branches of professional ethics such as business ethics and bioethics. Casuistry typically uses general principles in reasoning analogically from clear-cut cases, called paradigms, to vexing cases

39. We follow a Claque of frumpy, ego-jostling, middle-aged academics on a tour of the Terrezenstadt Nazi concentration camp where Landau wrestles mightilyagainst his own jealousies and under a cruelly blazing sun--to construe justly and objectively his flamboyant yet vexing rival, Jiri Krakauer, star writer and academic, who, although deserving of