vexation

McMurtry’s stark assessment grew in part from a vexation that, despite his lifelong project to demythologize the cowboy, the ultimate American icon, his most celebrated book had the inverse effect.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 30, 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

Her vexation then turns into humiliation and shame, then to debilitating depression.

From Salon ● Jan. 10, 2025

These “scenes from country life,” as the play is subtitled, are full of vexation, longing, frustration and endless complaints of boredom.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 7, 2022

To my intense vexation, he had even bought a TV Guide, to plan his viewing more effectively over the coming days.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson

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

The current zest for new privacy laws is also likely to stall as lawmakers wrestle with the technical complexities and constitutional vexations sure to emerge with any legislation to control content on the internet.

From New York Times ● Apr. 12, 2018

The exchange, in a Maryland murder case in which both families knew well the vexations of mental-health struggles, laid bare a shared pain.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 26, 2017

There are more cares and vexations coming on, but still they must be got through with at some rate.

From The Poems of Philip Freneau, Volume I (of III) by Philip Freneau