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

This was a fact she could not blast with her disbelief, and so she cried with vexation and went to neither dance.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck