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
Strange, too, that so few books deal substantively with a near-universal vexation, by which I mean the tax system.
From New York Times • Apr. 13, 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
Emma remained in a state of vexation too; but there was more indistinctness in the causes of her’s, than in his.
From "Emma" by Jane Austen
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
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Grade 9, List 3
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