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vexed

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1. vexed - Adjective

2. vexed - Verb

4. vexed - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

of Vex

Annoyed; harassed; troubled.

Much debated or contested; causing discussion; as, a vexed question.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Vexed sailors cursed the rain, for which poor shepherds prayed in vain. Edmund Waller

Optimism has always seemed to me the cunning alibi of egoists, anxious to cover up their state of chronic self-satisfaction. They are optimists in order to avoid pitying other men and their misfortune. ~~ Yet pity is a vexed question. Georges Bernanos

One special advantage of the skeptical attitude of mind is that a man is never vexed to find that after all he has been in the wrong. William Osler

For people may not know what they think about politics in the Balkans, or the vexed question of men and women, but everyone has a definite opinion about the flavour of shredded coconut. Louis Simpson

Serve a lord, and you will know what it is to be vexed. Portuguese Proverb

The sick man is vexed with the flies on the wall. German Proverb

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