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Definition of vex in English: vexverb vɛksvɛks [with object]1Make (someone) feel annoyed, frustrated, or worried, especially with trivial matters. the memory of the conversation still vexed him Example sentencesExamples - The debate about private car use in York has vexed York's politicians and transport planners for decades.
- I'm slightly vexed to find that walking is restricted to footpaths during the grouse nesting season (May to August).
- His prices were too high for the Venetian grandees, who were as careful as himself with money, whilst the religious orders vexed him with quibbles and indecision.
- Yes, it's sad that we are still vexed by the very same issues.
- There is something about this musical distinction that vexes me, but for the sake of the argument I'd say upbeat rock 'n' roll.
- However, many of us were vexed at our government and the souring relations with the States.
- If the Declaration inspires us with lofty ideals, the Constitution vexes us with questions of interpretation.
- I think I'll ask her this question that is vexing me so.
- She gets increasingly vexed by Les who insists she say particularly silly things over the airwaves.
- Simultaneous translation is provided, but Donald Dewar is among the members vexed by the technology and his grimace is captured by photographers.
- The finding sheds further light on a question that has vexed scientists for years: How do birds navigate between nesting areas separated by thousands of miles with pinpoint accuracy?
- And his equanimity didn't help matters, especially when she was vexed at him.
- She'd given him no instructions just as the stresses of his situation began to vex him.
- The question that has long vexed evolutionary biologists is whether these ornaments actually tell you anything about the genetic health of a male.
- Times and editors change, and now instead of letters, the magazine chooses to vex their readers by not offering indices of back issues online.
- It really vexes me to see that so many people believe that they should be able to dictate what a blogger does or does not write about.
- As a social activist, she was vexed by the invisibility of significant sections of the community - the homeless, the overweight and the elderly.
- As a Yorkshire born Aussie, the question of Scottish antipathy to the English has vexed me often.
- Yesterday, he was vexed and frustrated as the weekend's fatalities ensured a flood of calls from journalists.
- What vexed me enough that all those details would matter, however, was the film's treatment of women.
Synonyms annoy, irritate, infuriate, anger, incense, inflame, enrage, irk, chagrin, exasperate, madden, pique, provoke, nettle, disturb, upset, perturb, discompose, put out try, try someone's patience, get on someone's nerves, bother, trouble, worry, agitate, harass, harry, fuss, fluster, ruffle, hound rankle with, nag, torment, pain, distress, tease, frustrate, chafe, grate, fret, gall, outrage, displease, offend, disgust, dissatisfy, disquiet British rub up the wrong way Northern English mither informal peeve, aggravate, miff, bug, bite, eat, hassle, rile, get to, hack off, make someone's blood boil, make someone see red, get someone's goat, get someone's hackles up, make someone's hackles rise, get someone's back up, get someone's dander up, drive up the wall, drive bananas, needle, be a thorn in someone's side/flesh, be a pain in the neck, ruffle someone's feathers, get in someone's hair, get up someone's nose, get under someone's skin, give someone a hard time British informal nark, get on someone's wick, give someone the hump, wind up, get across North American informal tick off, ride, rankle, gravel, bum out vulgar slang piss off, get on someone's tits - 1.1West Indian no object Be annoyed, irritated, or unhappy.
I wouldn't vex; it will be just great if whoever borrow the pump, just bring it back Example sentencesExamples - ‘I was just so vex because they took all my gold, so I ran after them and Tim came out bleeding, running,’ she said.
- Well, vex or not, Pebbles and I shopped for about 7 hours or more, at the end of which I found myself with 4 pairs of pants and $56 less in my account.
- I also vex that I missin the T & T USA game, but I'll be watching that at a bar on Wednesday.
- I just get so vex with the phone for stealing my quarters so I leave.
- 1.2archaic Cause distress to.
thou shalt not vex a stranger Synonyms distress, grieve, sadden, make miserable, make wretched, upset, trouble, harrow, cause anguish to, afflict, perturb, disturb
adjective vɛks West Indian Angry; annoyed. Example sentencesExamples - All week leading up to the test match I was vex, fuming, I had it up to here.
- So, I was a get vex to rass’ cause I thought that it would have started by then on the TV.
- You know you really getting me kind of vex; here it is you are relaxing in your swivel chair, one finger on your lips staring at the ceiling… don't you have any compassion for this embattled lady?
- Then the child comes along and they are vex because they can't go hiking, partying, vacationing like before because baby is here.
- Somehow and I was close enough to hear the whole conversation so nothing the young lady said was offensive in either content or manner spoken, the owner just was vex from the word go.
Synonyms annoyed, irritated, angry, irate, furious, incensed, inflamed, enraged, infuriated, maddened, fuming, wrathful, choleric, exasperated, piqued, irked, nettled, ill-humoured, hot-tempered, testy, cross, in a bad mood, in a temper, in high dudgeon, huffy, in a huff, put out, fed up, disgruntled, displeased, dissatisfied, frustrated, resentful
Derivatives noun Lashing out against vexers doesn't get you a column and a half in The New York Times and editorials in 250 newspapers.
adverbˈvɛksɪŋliˈvɛksɪŋli However, from my perspective, it seems that the vast majority of issues distinguishing the main parties are purely cosmetic in nature and vexingly it seems that it is on these issues that the parties positions are most clear. Example sentencesExamples - The problem seems to be that she sets her pieces in not-quite-exotic-enough elsewheres, and often, vexingly, in the distant and only infrequently heroic past.
- The tortured syntax so often evident in his prose seemed to be matched only by the profundity of insight which that very syntax seemed at once to promise and vet also so vexingly.
Origin Late Middle English: from Old French vexer, from Latin vexare 'shake, disturb'. Rhymes annex, convex, ex, flex, hex, perplex, Rex, specs, Tex, Tex-Mex Definition of vex in US English: vexverbveksvɛks [with object]1Make (someone) feel annoyed, frustrated, or worried, especially with trivial matters. the memory of the conversation still vexed him Example sentencesExamples - She gets increasingly vexed by Les who insists she say particularly silly things over the airwaves.
- The debate about private car use in York has vexed York's politicians and transport planners for decades.
- There is something about this musical distinction that vexes me, but for the sake of the argument I'd say upbeat rock 'n' roll.
- Yesterday, he was vexed and frustrated as the weekend's fatalities ensured a flood of calls from journalists.
- And his equanimity didn't help matters, especially when she was vexed at him.
- His prices were too high for the Venetian grandees, who were as careful as himself with money, whilst the religious orders vexed him with quibbles and indecision.
- Times and editors change, and now instead of letters, the magazine chooses to vex their readers by not offering indices of back issues online.
- If the Declaration inspires us with lofty ideals, the Constitution vexes us with questions of interpretation.
- Yes, it's sad that we are still vexed by the very same issues.
- However, many of us were vexed at our government and the souring relations with the States.
- I think I'll ask her this question that is vexing me so.
- The question that has long vexed evolutionary biologists is whether these ornaments actually tell you anything about the genetic health of a male.
- She'd given him no instructions just as the stresses of his situation began to vex him.
- Simultaneous translation is provided, but Donald Dewar is among the members vexed by the technology and his grimace is captured by photographers.
- I'm slightly vexed to find that walking is restricted to footpaths during the grouse nesting season (May to August).
- As a Yorkshire born Aussie, the question of Scottish antipathy to the English has vexed me often.
- As a social activist, she was vexed by the invisibility of significant sections of the community - the homeless, the overweight and the elderly.
- The finding sheds further light on a question that has vexed scientists for years: How do birds navigate between nesting areas separated by thousands of miles with pinpoint accuracy?
- It really vexes me to see that so many people believe that they should be able to dictate what a blogger does or does not write about.
- What vexed me enough that all those details would matter, however, was the film's treatment of women.
Synonyms annoy, irritate, infuriate, anger, incense, inflame, enrage, irk, chagrin, exasperate, madden, pique, provoke, nettle, disturb, upset, perturb, discompose, put out - 1.1archaic Cause distress to.
thou shalt not vex a stranger Synonyms distress, grieve, sadden, make miserable, make wretched, upset, trouble, harrow, cause anguish to, afflict, perturb, disturb
Origin Late Middle English: from Old French vexer, from Latin vexare ‘shake, disturb’. |