vexation

"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.

In response, Edebiri looked at her costars to indicate her vexation that only the white members of the cast were being asked about the status of social movements.

When violence erupted on 3 August - fuelled by misinformation - following the fatal stabbing of three young girls at a dance class in Southport, fear and vexation gripped communities.

As for the state’s notoriously prolonged vote-counting process, it may be a source of vexation.

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