VEXED in a Sentence

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Still more, on viewing the matter clearly, he felt vexed to think that he himself had been so largely the cause of the catastrophe.

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 Meanings and Examples of VEXED
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
vexed
 a.  troubled persistently especially with petty annoyances; causing difficulty in finding an answer or solution; much disputed
Classic Sentence: (66 in 5 pages)
1  Still more, on viewing the matter clearly, he felt vexed to think that he himself had been so largely the cause of the catastrophe.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VIII
2  He suddenly felt vexed with himself for having, without reason, been so expansive before this gentleman.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
3  I am very much vexed that I have forgotten.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: III
4  He broke off and began pacing the room still more vexed.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: III
5  The plump boy ran after them angrily, as if vexed that their program had been disturbed.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XI
6  It was not what he had read that vexed him, but the fact that the life out there in which he had now no part could perturb him.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER IX
7  He was evidently vexed and impatient for the talkative doctor to go.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XVII
8  His coming vexed me from the first, and I said something disagreeable to him.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER X
9  The more interesting his letters were the more vexed she felt.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER XIII
10  More than once he had vexed his father by spoiling his own career, and he laughed at distinctions of all kinds.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XI
11  Then, vexed at his own weakness, he turned away and began to report on the position of affairs.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER V
12  The princess was apparently vexed at not having anyone to be angry with.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER XVIII
13  She knew it to be necessary, and though it was hard for her she was not vexed with these people.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 12: CHAPTER XIV
14  not vexed with her and did not reproach her.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 15: CHAPTER XX
15  She knew that when he thought aloud in this way he would sometimes ask her what he had been saying, and be vexed if he noticed that she had been thinking about something else.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 16: CHAPTER XV
Example Sentence:
1  His conduct vexed her very much.
2  Ministers have begun work on the vexed issue of economic union.
3  He is vexed at my idle ways and waste of time: as if I need like a city clerk, six days a week and no holidays!
4  Please try not to vex your mother; she is doing the best she can.
5  This issue looks likely to continue to vex the government.
6  Many vexing problems beset the American public school system.