vexation

Example Sentences

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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

He can’t tell if Romy’s vexation is genuine or just another part of their game, and tries to figure it out with a command.

From Salon • Dec. 30, 2024

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

He joined them on their entering the town, and attended them to their aunt’s where his regret and vexation, and the concern of everybody, was well talked over.

From "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen