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.
"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
Her vexation then turns into humiliation and shame, then to debilitating depression.
From Salon
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
Strange, too, that so few books deal substantively with a near-universal vexation, by which I mean the tax system.
From New York Times
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