Word Finder - vexed

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To trouble aggressively, to harass.

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To annoy, irritate.

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To cause (mental) suffering to; to distress.

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To twist, to weave.

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To be irritated; to fret.

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To toss back and forth; to agitate; to disquiet.

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Annoyed, irritated or distressed

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She became more and more vexed as she struggled to cope with the demands of the job.

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Much debated, discussed or disputed

He was tired, he was vexed, he hardly knew what he said.

I was beginning to be vexed with you.

There are two vexed questions with regard to these law-books.

She concluded from his tone that he was vexed with her and wished to end the conversation.

The vexed question of the presence of coal and tin in the Nicobars has so far received no decided scientific support.

The princess was apparently vexed at not having anyone to be angry with.

Recent investigations in regard to the vexed question of the position of the actors in the Greek theatre have as yet not led to any certain solution.'

Essentially a diplomatist, he took little or no part in the vexed internal affairs of the Dual Monarchy, and he came little before the public except at the annual statement on foreign affairs before the Delegations.

This vexed me and the lesson always ended in a one-sided boxing match.

Something depends upon the vexed question as to the identity of the Galatian churches.

I could not understand, and was vexed.

He exchanged the cares of his bishopric for what he thought would be the easier chair of the Abbey of Fontenay, but there he was vexed with continual lawsuits.

I was so vexed to see him stand up with her!

The sailor, extremely vexed, tried in all sorts of ways to procure fire.

Excited and vexed by the failure and supposing that someone must be responsible for it, Toll galloped up to the commander of the corps and began upbraiding him severely, saying that he ought to be shot.

The world, which perhaps ought to have been vexed, chose rather to be diverted; and the great satirist literally strains his power ut pueris placeat.

As the British ministry was reluctant to discuss these vexed questions, little progress was made, and in May 1806 Jefferson ordered William Pinkney of Maryland to assist Monroe.

She knew it to be necessary, and though it was hard for her she was not vexed with these people.

I was vexed to find the alloy of modern refinement in a lady who had so much old family spirit.

At the effort he put in the difficult words, she looked up at him, her clear blue eyes vexed.

The vexed question of the diagnosis of diphtheria is now a thing of the past.

What would have happened supposing that England had made no further stir, and had not vexed William by rebellion, it is impossible to say.

Then there's the vexed question of who you trust to tweak, fiddle and generally fettle your precious instruments.

She was very much vexed, and meant to make her apology as soon as possible.

Feeling weird about the whole thing, and a little vexed.

The centrifugal forces within the Hungarian kingdom are thus increased by the attraction of kindred nationalities established beyond its borders, a fact which is of special importance in considering the vexed and difficult racial problem in Hungary.

With the Roman Church, too, the king came into conflict on the vexed question of "mixed marriages," a conflict in which the Vatican gained an easy victory (see Bunsen, C.C.J., Baron Von).

The government of Commodus, feeble in itself and vexed by many troubles, could not repair the loss, and the civil wars which soon raged in Europe (193-197) gave the Caledonians further chance.

When he reached Danzig and found his rival Augustus II., elector of Saxony, already in possession of the Polish crown, he returned to France, where he was graciously received by Louis, although St Simon says the king was vexed to see him again.

It would be difficult to decide how much of the dispute between the advocates of pleasure theories and their opponents turns upon vexed questions of psychology, and how much is p ho strictly relevant to ethics.

Let us now turn to the equally vexed issues of quality and standards.

I was so vexed to see him stand up with her !

However, until more is known of the exact chemical composition of naturalas contrasted with agriculturalsoils, and until more is known of the physiological effects of lime, it is impossible to decide the vexed question of the relation of limeloving and lime-shunning plants to the presence or absence of calcium carbonate in the soil.

In 1840 he introduced a bill to settle the vexed question of patronage; but disliked by a majority in the general assembly of the Scotch church, and unsupported by the government, it failed to become law, and some opprobrium was cast upon its author.

The great age of Scholasticism presents, indeed, a substantial unanimity upon this vexed point, maintaining at once, in different senses, the existence of the universals ante rem, re and post rem.

In the hurry of the winding-up of the congress, however, the vexed question of the succession to the grand-duchy had not been settled.

The commission succeeded in agreeing to the terms of a treaty, which was recommended to Congress by President Cleveland as supplying " a satisfactory, practical and final adjustment, upon a basis honourable and just to both parties, of the difficult and vexed questions to which it relates."

After an expedition in 1890 to Cilicia Trachea, where he obtained a valuable collection of inscriptions, Bent spent a year in South Africa, with the object, by investigation of some of the ruins in Mashonaland, of throwing light on the vexed question of their origin and on the early history of East Africa.

The vexed and difficult question of the ownership of the ecclesiastical lands was settled by fixing November 1627 as the deciding date; those who were in possession then were to retain them for forty years, during which time it was hoped a satisfactory arrangement would be reached.

On the vexed question of the interpretation of Article 13 Metternich recognized the inexpediency of requiring the South German states to revise their constitutions in a reactionary sense.

How far the country generally may be regarded as Hellenized is a problem which involves the vexed question what right the Macedonian people itself has to be classed among the Hellenes, and Macedonian to be considered a dialect of Greek.'

The vexed question, of many centuries' standing, concerning the claim of Denmark to levy dues on vessels passing through the Sound, was settled by the abolition of the dues in 1857.

For many years before the accession of his uncle Justin, the Eastern world had been vexed by the struggles of the Monophysite party, who recognized only one nature in Christ, against the view which then and ever since has maintained itself as orthodox, that the divine and human natures coexisted in Him.

On the view taken as to his alleged complicity in the conspiracy of 1599 depends the vexed question as to whether this system was a philosophic dream, or a serious attempt to sketch a constitution for Naples in the event of her becoming a free city.

But the prevailing impression we carry away after reading him is that in all his early satires he was animated by a sincere and manly detestation of the tyranny and cruelty, the debauchery and luxury, the levity and effeminacy, the crimes and frauds, which we know from other sources were then rife in Rome, and that a more serene wisdom and a happier frame of mind were attained by him when old age had somewhat allayed the fierce rage which vexed his manhood.

They are couched in brief legislative form though on no definite plan, and deal with the vexed questions of ecclesiastical discipline as they were raised towards the end of the 4th century.

The proclamation of the dogma of the immaculate conception in 1854 was more than the decision of an old and vexed theological problem; it was an act of conformity to a pietistic type especially represented by the Jesuits.

Well, perhaps unsurprisingly the issues of militant Islamists and free speech have vexed many people.

I think that it is a matter that has vexed philosophers down the ages.

It now becomes clear why it was this aspect of the fall which vexed the writer most.