How to Use vexed in a Sentence

vexed

adjective
  • She was feeling somewhat vexed.
  • He’d be approached by men who wanted to broker a sale, and leave them vexed.
    — Michael Lapointe, The Atlantic, 11 May 2018
  • Poirot himself is vexed to have been used in such a scheme—and concerned about greater mischief to come.
    — Tom Nolan, WSJ, 30 Aug. 2018
  • How to do that was a very vexed and complicated problem.
    — David Frum, The Atlantic, 10 June 2026
  • Both men owe their prominence to vexed Irish relations with Britain.
    — The Economist, 6 Feb. 2020
  • As clutches laid by those snakes failed to contain any crimson hatchlings, vexed breeders agreed that they’d been conned.
    — Rebecca Giggs, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2024
  • For years, Hamas’ tight grip on Gaza vexed Mideast mediators.
    — Washington Post, 21 June 2018
  • Motherhood is a more mature work, its subject matter more serious and its tone more vexed.
    — Maggie Doherty, The New Republic, 25 Apr. 2018
  • Prince Ahmed was seen as a person who royals could look to when feeling vexed with the crown prince’s grip on power, the person said.
    — Aya Batrawy, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Mar. 2020
  • What Biden now faces vexed predecessors in struggles against smallpox, polio, measles and swine flu.
    — John Harwood, CNN, 5 Dec. 2021
  • Judge Steven O'Neill has seemed vexed at times as the court staff struggled to answer the jury's requests.
    — Crimesider Staff, CBS News, 15 June 2017
  • But on a series of vexed, compromising decisions during the campaign, not so much.
    — Holman W. Jenkins, WSJ, 4 May 2018
  • The question of what time middle and high school should begin has long vexed parents in certain Connecticut suburbs.
    — Daniela Altimari, courant.com, 3 Oct. 2019
  • That question — the deepest and most vexed issue posed by the theory — is still the subject of arguments a century old.
    — Philip Ball, Quanta Magazine, 20 Oct. 2022
  • Floyd, a skilled scorer fresh off his first and only All-Star appearance, looked vexed against the Lakers’ half-court trap.
    — Connor Letourneau, SFChronicle.com, 8 May 2020
  • Creighton coach Greg McDermott was so vexed that he was called for a technical for the first time since 2018.
    — David Woods, The Indianapolis Star, 9 Feb. 2022
  • To the show’s credit, characters like Will Conway and Cathy Durant seem vexed by this question as well.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 30 May 2017
  • Ethan Hawke stars in writer-director Michael Almereyda’s tale of the protean and vexed inventor.
    — Lisa Kennedy, The Know, 30 Jan. 2020
  • The Hornets looked vexed as Green sifted out holes in their defense, lacing passes to a cutting Oubre in transition.
    — Connor Letourneau, San Francisco Chronicle, 26 Feb. 2021
  • Charlotte dealing with her child’s gender identity) and lows (Carrie’s vexed boss, Che; the episode-long subplot about an apartment beep).
    — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 4 Feb. 2022
  • But the question has long vexed investigators and is at the heart of a long-running lawsuit in Manhattan on behalf of thousands of victims.
    — Eric Tucker, ajc, 6 July 2021
  • Some were more vexed, such as the conflicts between early English settlers and Native Americans.
    — James Matthew Wilson, WSJ, 13 May 2021
  • The upsurge of arrivals has strained the shelter system, taxed the city’s budget and vexed Adams, who has condemned the buses as a political ploy and criticized the lack of federal help.
    — Joanna Slater, Washington Post, 24 Mar. 2023
  • The lead plaintiff of the suit is March and Ash, the retail arm of a California cannabis company, and offers a window into the vexed state of the legal weed business.
    — Ezra Marcus, New York Times, 30 Jan. 2024
  • However, this was far from the case as the Gunners fell to a 2-1 defeat at the hands of the Seagulls at the Amex Stadium, leaving a number of fans vexed beyond belief.
    — SI.com, 5 Mar. 2018

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