vexation

Holly is already known to police because she’s in the habit of sneaking into the house where she grew up and sleeping there overnight, to the vexation of the current owners.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 16, 2026

"You might be feeling a familiar vexation at the sight of these two formerly innocuous numerals," Dictionary.com said, addressing parents as it announced the winner this week.

From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2025

“I’m begging you, Michael, I’m begging you, try to make believe this is not just madness, because this is not just madness,” the voice pleads, pitch modulating and then oscillating through steadiness to vexation.

From New York Times ● Dec. 31, 2023

Even if you don’t care about bowling, his vexation is understandable.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 21, 2023

This was a fact she could not blast with her disbelief, and so she cried with vexation and went to neither dance.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck

Ahead of Sunday’s election for a new parliament and government, those vexations are being heard again as the European Union country’s two main parties, the center-left Socialists and the center-right Social Democrats, compete for power.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 27, 2022

By now, the litany of vexations is well known: the jammed phone lines, the hours on hold, the online system that balks and crashes, the inexplicable responses to re-file and then re-file again.

From Washington Times ● Jun. 17, 2020

For more than 50 years, beginning in 1946, Mr. Modell’s moon-faced characters leapt from The New Yorker’s pages in a perpetual state of exasperation or pandemonium, evoking for readers their everyday vexations.

From New York Times ● May 29, 2016

The homeowner’s breathing more easily now; she’ll suffer no further vexations.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 28, 2016

I have, after innumerable vexations, agreed with three houses, which are well esteemed here, to open a loan.

From The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution (Volume VI) by Various