Vexing
['vɛksɪŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Vex
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Examples
- You felt no remorse in vexing me, last night. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Of course I contradict the tale everywhere; but it is very vexing, and I wonder how it could have originated. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- You take delight in vexing me. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- It will save you from many troubles of the vexing sort. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- The redundancy of his alertness was half-vexing, half-ludicrous: in my mind I both disapproved and derided most of this fuss. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
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