How To Use Vexed In A Sentence

He was vexed and flounced out of the dining room.
Sources expect there is little chance of agreement between the two sides on the vexed issue of overtime, expected to hit 64 million this year.
This problem, which has vexed Jewish philosophers since Philo Judaeus, had recently received elaborate treatment by Maimonides. Gersonides
The question of acquisitions is a vexed one. Times, Sunday Times
The inscription above the arch, "To a happy and prosperous entrance," seemed a mockery in the old douanier days, when delays and extortions vexed the soul of the visitor, and produced a mood anything but favourable to the enjoyment of the Eternal City. Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood

It vexed him that the golden deeds of his youth had been largely forgotten and that no knighthood had been bestowed. Times, Sunday Times
For example, the vexed problem of alcohol abuse is argued by some to be amenable to outside intervention.
Yesterday, he was vexed and frustrated as the weekend's fatalities ensured a flood of calls from journalists.
the vexed parents of an unruly teenager
As a Yorkshire born Aussie, the question of Scottish antipathy to the English has vexed me often.
She was starting to feel a bit vexed and it displeased her greatly.
In 1830 Lander solved the vexed question of where the Niger debouched into the sea.
All these issues meet in the vexed question of governance.
There was also the vexed question of storage. Times, Sunday Times
Thankfully, as two of these books show, a degree of clarity has emerged after much vexed exegesis. Christianity Today
Mrs. Norris was too much vexed to submit with a good grace.
One young buckeen said, if I'd go into the tavern and take share of a quart of mulled beer with him, he'd make that bargain with me, and that so vexed me that I turned home at once.
And he was sore vexed and did tell the victor on the field, a knight that hight Sir Arsenius, that for all his men were worsted in the fray, natheless they did fight in the better fashion.
It's just the nature of these rules which will always be vexed and under constant modification.
He certainly did get more annoyed and vexed than other people seemed to, when things didn't quite go his way.
It is, he says, a problem that has always vexed the fields of robotics and artificial intelligence. Times, Sunday Times
The debate about private car use in York has vexed York's politicians and transport planners for decades.
The legacy of Buffalo Bill's fight with Yellow Hair vexed the plainsman in his own day and survives among the myths of the American West.
The quiet precinct of the church - yard becomes an unquiet sea of death in which the sleep of the rude Forefathers, forever laid ‘each in his narrow cell,’ seems vexed by a restlessness that will severely tax the poet's resources.
What vexed me enough that all those details would matter, however, was the film's treatment of women.
With bitter physic purge the bitter bile," [730] so vexed and bitter are you at people's weaknesses and infirmities, which is not reasonable in you. Plutarch's Morals
Round at health they are vexed by news of cigarette smoke blowing back through open doors. Times, Sunday Times
The question that has long vexed evolutionary biologists is whether these ornaments actually tell you anything about the genetic health of a male.
But, interestingly, the whole question of incommensurability and incomparability is at the center of a new paper I am completing on the vexed issue of proportionality in the laws of war. The Volokh Conspiracy » Mallaby on Soros and the Pound, and Some Other Summer Reading in Philosophy and Economics
The other, who played the piffero, was a man of middle age, stout, vigorous, with a forest of tangled black hair, and dark quick eyes that were fixed steadily on the Virgin, while he blew and vexed the little brown pipe with rapid runs and nervous fioriture, until great drops of sweat dripped from its round open mouth. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 18, April, 1859
And here, at the end of it all, I pore over books of astronomy from the prison library, such as they allow condemned men to read, and learn that even the heavens are passing fluxes, vexed with star - driftage as the earth is by the drifts of men. Chapter 21
This question of how to conceive of human mental capacities is a vexed one.
For in that great malady which had so vexed her that she lay in her bed, she arose and did her to be borne from one place to another, and did spin a fine small cloth of which she made more than fifty corporas, and sent them in fair towels of silk into divers churches in divers places of Assisi. The Golden Legend, vol. 6
The subsidies have been a vexed issue between the two biggest trading blocs in the world and a source of anger among developing countries, who claim they are being shut out of western markets.
And if you decide to follow the DIY route, there is the vexed issue of finding reputable tradesmen. Times, Sunday Times
And his equanimity didn't help matters, especially when she was vexed at him.
Yes, it's sad that we are still vexed by the very same issues.
Also rabbit-foot clover, mullein, day-lilies, and the first of the vexed purple loosestrife of the season. Sunday roadkill report
If memory serves, weren’t bars of soap convexed on both sides? Mouse Print»Blog Archive » Skimpy Peanut Butter — Part 2
Round at health they are vexed by news of cigarette smoke blowing back through open doors. Times, Sunday Times
The vexed question of supplying arms has also featured ominously. Times, Sunday Times
The blond man's study, he was vexed to learn, was locked, but the room adjacent to it was not.
The issue of artistic control was as vexed at the majors as it was at indies.
Instead of getting all vexed, Scooby and Shaggy-style, they should have thanked his blonde temp ... tress (Ali Larter doing a bargain basement impression of Sharon Stone at her most bargain basement) for adding some excitement to their lives. Fourfour:
He was vexed with the levity that had made him call his roomful together on so poor a pretext, and yet was vexed with the stupidity that made the witnesses so evidently find the pretext sufficient. The Tragic Muse
And here, in the unforgetable crypts of man's unwritten history, unthinkable and unrealizable, like passages of nightmare or impossible adventures of lunacy, he encountered the monsters created of man's first morality that ever since have vexed him into the spinning of fantasies to elude them or do battle with them. LIKE ARGUS OF THE ANCIENT TIMES
A singular feature attending the salt lakes, or the hollows where water had formerly lodged, was the existence of innumerable small stones, resembling biscuits or cakes in shape, perfectly circular and flat, but a little convexed in the upper surface, they were of various sizes, and appeared to consist of lime, being formed into their present shape by the action of water. Journals of expeditions of discovery into Central Australia, and overland from Adelaide to King George's Sound, in the years 1840-1
I am, indeed, seriously angry with you at the quantum of your luckpenny; but, vexed and hurt as I was, I could not help laughing very heartily at the noble lord's apology for the missed napkin. The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham
Efficiency and fairness are the problem with past dynasties economist and vexed sociologist all the time.
There is a also a vexed question of valuations. Times, Sunday Times
It vexed him that the golden deeds of his youth had been largely forgotten and that no knighthood had been bestowed. Times, Sunday Times
Mount Robson isn't on the tour," the wife behind Alexandra was saying in her ear, in a penetrating, slightly vexed voice. 'The Widows of Eastwick'
Public loos have been a vexed issue in the town for some time and council has been grappling with plans to build new public toilets in the caravan park, but that's hit a snag.
The Koreans, knowing perhaps that failure would mean summary execution, executed their own swarming defensive strategy and foiled, consternated and vexed the Brazilians so badly that Brazil's "beautiful game" became, right before our astonished eyes, the "not so prepossessing game. Greatest World Cup goals
And now we get to the vexed question of price. Times, Sunday Times
I say I was vexed for it afterwards; especially as the laddie did not mean to give offence; and as I saw the blae marks of my four fingers along his chaft-blade. The Life of Mansie Wauch Tailor in Dalkeith, written by himself
It is a tangle of historic forces, compounded by present-day fear and pride and vexed by world ideological powers.
Eventually, maybe regrettably, he falls into a slumber; unhappy and uncommitted to things, convoluted and convexed into a shape to epitomize everything. My Love For You Is Real
I was vexed that I could not understand his logic.
But the appearance of financial cronyism, allied to the vexed issue of government extravagance on failing computer systems, does not sit well with the chancellor's austere image.
-- "M. le Prince de Conti has established a captainry of eleven leagues around Ile-Adam and where everybody is vexed at it. The Ancient Regime
They diminished gradually from the base, with a slight convexed swelling downward. The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization.
At the end of the third year I waxed aweary of this lonesome mourning, and one day I happened to enter the cenotaph when vexed and angry with some matter which had thwarted me, and suddenly I heard her say: — O my lord, I never hear thee vouch safe a single word to me! The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
The memory of their conversation still vexed him.
The second issue that arises deals with the somewhat vexed problem of the collateral evidence rule.
Now long-continued anger, and frequent giving way to it, produces an evil disposition of soul, which people call irascibility, and which ends in passionateness, bitterness, and peevishness, whenever the mind becomes sore and vexed at trifles and querulous at everyday occurrences, like iron thin and beaten out too fine. Plutarch's Morals
How far these have been effective is a vexed question. Times, Sunday Times
Measured by a simple blood test, c - reactive protein ( CRP ) has vexed scientists for years.
The very word and category, "interventionist," is still vexed by the older discussion of engaged art. Scrivener, Introduction
The announcement is not before time, considering the many tedious months of procrastination and prevarication there have been over this vexed issue.
There's no way to know how nervous these folks are, or how vexed they must be to have their work judged by their deportment.
It is a tangle of historic forces, compounded by present-day fear and pride and vexed by world ideological powers.
Benson paused, half vexed at his volubility, and gazed keenly at CHAPTER V
That he resented being "bossed" by a woman, that her superior quickness of mind and energy vexed him and that one day he would try to master her. The Beach of Dreams
Wisden has been vexed about the influence that a sole proprietor inevitably exerts over his club and the game. Times, Sunday Times
Simultaneous translation is provided, but Donald Dewar is among the members vexed by the technology and his grimace is captured by photographers.
He is vexed at what he calls my idle ways, and waste of time: as if I need plod on, like a city clerk, six days a week and no holidays! Elster's Folly
Hence inflation and the other problems which now vexed the country. English Conservatism since the Restoration: An introduction and anthology
The relationship between art and politics has always been a vexed one.
He vexed himself with vain speculations, for it was perfectly certain that he would get nothing in the way of either denial or confirmation out of Ram Nath; and, presently, acknowledging this, he called the khansamah and ordered a peg for the sake of the dust in his throat. The Bronze Bell
What remains a vexed issue, however, is evolving the right module that can be integrated into the lifestyles of the police.
The first proposition is easier to defend than the second, as it rests on inexorable logic rather than vexed value judgments.
Day, on the contrary, was amazingly cheerful, particularly when the sun shone; never troubled his head about what was to happen when his fun was over: on the contrary, thought his fun ought to last for ever because it was pleasant, was quite vexed when it was put a stop to, and had no scruple in railing at his rival; whose only object, as it seemed to him, was to overshadow and put an end to all the happiness that was to be found. Parables From Nature
If short-acting benzodiazepines, which are convexed by the side effects of avandia f p450 system, are painfully regreted with fluconazole, abuterol should rely consiguen to powering the atteinoin dosage, and the carbohidratos should socialize systemically monitored. Wii-volution
This problem has vexed me for years, and now we are being given guidance by the courts. Times, Sunday Times
These legal issues lead into politico-legal questions such as the vexed issue of compliance: there are clearly serious difficulties involved in making states live up to their legal obligations.
As an ephemera collector from way back, I am particular vexed by the suggestion that history holds negligible value in a culture dominated by technological excess.
In thee have they set light by father and mother: in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the stranger: in thee have they vexed the fatherless and the widow.
Marianne was vexed at it for her sister's sake.
This problem has vexed me for years, and now we are being given guidance by the courts. Times, Sunday Times
Their incessant droppings vexed golfers and "fowled" water hazards, and he couldn't get rid of them. Twenty Million-Dollar Businesses You've Never Heard Of
They're discussing the vexed question of private health insurance.
The management of irony and sincerity - their proper apportioning, their containment and release - is the vexed issue of this novel, as of so many contemporary works.
At the heart of this problem lies the vexed question for the judiciary of separating policy issues from legal issues, and this is well illustrated by the impossibility of accepting the orthodox view of judicial independence at face value.
we live in vexed and troubled times
Let us apply these facts to some of the more simple of the vexed questions of prosody, No one disputes the universality of the rhythmizing impulse; the quarrel begins as soon as any prosodist attempts to dogmatize about the nature and measurement of those flowing time-intervals whose arrangement we call rhythm. A Study of Poetry
Exporters, farmers and industrialists alike are vexed and blame the government.
One of the most vexed issues with regard to the media concerns the coverage of the statements and actions of terrorist groups.
The vexed question of supplying arms has also featured ominously. Times, Sunday Times
We offer our condolences to Alicia Keys and Celine Dion, who were vexed by rare, but inexcusable, technical gremlins during their performances.
His conduct vexed her very much.
The vexed question of supplying arms has also featured ominously. Times, Sunday Times
Vexed, on the other hand, has a nonnovel format: two cops, one male, one female, squabbling. Times, Sunday Times
These vexed machines with their built in obsolescence are no match for me.
Both my parents were secretly vexed that I had come into the world an hour sooner than my brother; and Gerald himself looked upon it as a sort of juggle, -- a kind of jockeyship by which he had lost the prerogative of birthright. Devereux — Volume 01
I was vexed by this question in my head, "is running nihilistic or existentialist in nature?"
Now long-continued anger, and frequent giving way to it, produces an evil disposition of soul, which people call irascibility, and which ends in passionateness, bitterness, and peevishness, whenever the mind becomes sore and vexed at trifles and querulous at everyday occurrences, like iron thin and beaten out too fine. Plutarch's Morals
Both will have to make their position clear on the vexed constitutional issue of the monarchy. Times, Sunday Times
Hence inflation and the other problems which now vexed the country. English Conservatism since the Restoration: An introduction and anthology
He was, naturally enough, exceedingly put out, and vexed; and unhappily betook himself to a neighbouring tavern for 'spirituous' solacement -- a very rare thing, let me add, for him to do. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 459 Volume 18, New Series, October 16, 1852
It vexed me to think of others gossiping behind my back.
Addressing this vexed issue has instead become something close to a shambles. Times, Sunday Times
For pettiness, for triviality; for all the little things that had vexed him. EVERVILLE
It vexed me to think of others gossiping behind my back.
It was "patronized" by Pope Urban VIII in such manner as to paralyze it, and it was afterward vexed by Pope Gregory XVI. A History of the warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom
Exporters, farmers and industrialists alike are vexed and blame the government.
We come now to the vexed questions of the Oedipus complex, childhood amnesia, and the so-called latency period, which is supposed to follow the Oedipal phase.
And a councillor's wife was cured of a _panaritium_ (?) which had vexed her for four days by the same means. Folk Lore Superstitious Beliefs in the West of Scotland within This Century
God gracious bless me, how my poor head is vexed and worried by that girl Gupe's so perseveringly asking, over and over again , about her tiresome letters!
The south will be looking for movement on the vexed issue of the separated families, even if that only extends to the provision of enhanced communications.
The question of what they should do is a vexed one. Times, Sunday Times
The question as to how old is too old to wear shorts in town is a vexed one. Times, Sunday Times
It vexed him that the golden deeds of his youth had been largely forgotten and that no knighthood had been bestowed. Times, Sunday Times
The memory of their conversation still vexed him.
A fairly large crowd had gathered, including even Peter, who looked both vexed and worried at the same time.
These are vexed questions that involve the whole community in Western societies: scientists, professionals, and the general public.
Sin displeases me, madam," rejoined Hircan; "I am vexed at offending God; but pleasure pleases me. The Heptameron of Margaret, Queen of Navarre
For a week, ever since I had landed from the tiny coasting-steamer, I had been stopping with Cudworth, and during that time no wind had ruffled that unvexed sea. The Sheriff of Kona
There were a few different rooms, the first was mainly cool Holograms, next was a room of famous faces that appeared to follow you around the room and be convexed in appearance when they where just still con-caved moulds. TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com
However, many of us were vexed at our government and the souring relations with the States.
Ministers have begun work on the vexed issue of economic union.
Water-falling was delivered from the contagion of the pestilence, Rocke went to the city of Cesena which is a great city of Italy, which no less pestilence vexed, and he in a short space delivered it from the pestilence. The Golden Legend, vol. 5
Sometimes, the most vexed problems are resolved through simple solutions.
It will establish how the nation will contend with the vexed question of hired-in labour to replace the efforts of locals.
Mr. Brown, who had always met my advances with a grim taciturnity that made conversation exceedingly difficult, proceeded to dissertate upon one or two of the vexed questions of the day. An Amiable Charlatan
We come now to the vexed question of pension rights.
For this they take for a very evil token, as though the soul being in despair and vexed in conscience, through some privy and secret forefeeling of the punishment now at hand, were afraid to depart. The Second Book. Of the Religions in Utopia
Leading on from this, the article turns provocative when it addresses English and the vexed matter of case.
And so we come to the vexed problem of trousers. Times, Sunday Times
It vexed him that the golden deeds of his youth had been largely forgotten and that no knighthood had been bestowed. Times, Sunday Times
How much to spend on a handbag is a vexed issue. Times, Sunday Times
SERMON V. “VEXED with a devil;” she is devilled, that is, fully possessed. The Tryal & Triumph of Faith: or An Exposition of the History of Christs dispossessing of the daughter of the woman of Canaan.
And so upon that solitude the day was born like a new miracle with only one visible worshipper, and the sun rose up like a star and was then a convexed line of fire, and presently it ate a little into the prairie; and the world was light and rose and green and very near me, so that I sighed a little and then walked back briskly to the camp and raised a loud shout, not to the sun, but to my fellow-men. A Tramp's Notebook
Surveying the herbaceous border, Miss Marple clicked her tongue vexedly and pulled up a flourishing plant of groundsel. Twin Moons
I was vexed exceedingly to see the callant in this dilemmy, for he was growing very tall and thin, his chaft-blades being lank and white, and his eyes of a hollow drumliness, as if he got no refreshment from the slumbers of the night. The Life of Mansie Wauch Tailor in Dalkeith, written by himself
He was "umbrageous," ready to be discomposed by the action of others, but, if not vexed or startled, he was elaborately courteous. Henrik Ibsen
A profound philosophic writer of the age intimates that the various psychological systems which have so long vexed the world are but veiled ontologic speculations. Beulah
One morning, several days later, the arena was vexed by uproar and commotion from the animal cages. CHAPTER XXIX
Something that makes me surprised, astonished, vexed and angry is that there are persons and gangs year after year who appear to have a kind of license to cheat foreign tourists.
The themes that underlie this vexed issue in France are as evident here: this is the latest chapter in a long and troubled history of how liberalism interacts with religion in Europe.
And if so, to-night she will be vexed, for all the ladies will try all sorts of coquetries on you. Two Poets
Picture to yourself so many devils, all in glossy black feather coats and dark breeches, with waistcoats inclining to blue, pully-hawlying away at the unresisting figure of the follower of Fox, and getting first vexed and then irritated with the pieces of choking soft armour in which, five or six ply thick, his inviting carcass was so provokingly insheathed! Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2
When they continued out past the steel diving-stage where a few of the hardiest divers disported, he muttered vexedly under his breath "damned malahinis! THE KANAKA SURF
Part of the attraction for journalists, Walsh suggests, is that the drama broaches the vexed issue of the way in which news is compartmentalised.
His prices were too high for the Venetian grandees, who were as careful as himself with money, whilst the religious orders vexed him with quibbles and indecision.
He was even vexed at what I translated by the term imitative harmony. Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician
the vexed issue of priorities
By refiguring the ‘theory of the passions’ the book invites us to question the medium's capacity for projecting a dreamworld despite its vexed association with the past.
There," he said, playfully pretending to be vexed, "I'll fetch thee na moor coils on my yead, so thaa needn't expect it. Little Abe Or, The Bishop of Berry Brow
Ministers have begun work on the vexed issue of economic union.
The bitter disagreements and feuds within the British establishment surrounding the vexed issue of foreign policy are seeping out into the open.
But beyond the quandaries presented by Isabella's complex purchasing practices, the social niceties of shopping often created vexed issues for all strata of the Renaissance consumer society.
It vexed him that the golden deeds of his youth had been largely forgotten and that no knighthood had been bestowed. Times, Sunday Times
He was vexed at his failure.
Ministers have begun work on the vexed issue of economic union.
Retyping the name and checking the spelling, Velsen got frustrated and was quite vexed at the computer.
She was even a little vexed at what she called Sylvester's "hard-heartedness. Tales of the Argonauts
Winter hats are a vexed subject. Times, Sunday Times
Rephrasing Agamben: If it does indeed seem "possible, in other words, to call into question the principle of conditioned necessity," wouldn't it be precisely the "other words" of ontology's linguistic equivalent in vexed groundedness that might help acquaint us with the rhythm of all such suspended negativity, help us practice it, so to speak — by entertaining that othering from within that is the very function of literary words in subvocal speaking? Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian
But the appearance of financial cronyism, allied to the vexed issue of government extravagance on failing computer systems, does not sit well with the chancellor's austere image.
The inn-keeper in the Milan version is vexed and disconcerted with the frugality of the meal of leafage and bread, which has been contemptuously served on a tin plate.
The more vexed issue is of elite performance. Times, Sunday Times
The finding sheds further light on a question that has vexed scientists for years: How do birds navigate between nesting areas separated by thousands of miles with pinpoint accuracy?
We come now to the vexed question of pension rights.
Ms. Srinivasan, who attended Alfred University and worked at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, said her work, made of convexed, mirrorized glass and silicon on canvas, "evokes a malleable memory of all that surrounds it. The Medium of Memory
The government has to deal with the vexed question of how to reduce spending.
Chrysostom was the more vexed because, though his own conviction was unshakenly orthodox, he had always endeavoured to treat the Arians with courtesy and fairness. Gathering Clouds: A Tale of the Days of St. Chrysostom
As his voice trailed I became more irritated, vexed at how he refused to answer me, let alone really pay attention to me.
The cost overrun factor as well as the vexed issue of rehabilitation of displaced problem continued to delay the project time and again.
All her unfulfilled promises arose before her, like a vexed sea whose waves run mountains high; and her soul, which seemed but one mass of lies, shrunk back aghast from the 'awful look' of him whom she had formerly talked to, as if he had been Narrative of Sojourner Truth, a Northern Slave, Emancipated from Bodily Servitude by the State of New York, in 1828
No portion of the narrative vexed him except the nonarrival of the messengers, and the probability that some time must yet elapse ere Heinz could sheathe his sword. In the Fire of the Forge — Volume 08
Viewed as a calling or a vocation, scholarship has an inevitably vexed relation to institutional life.
Vexed about losing his working visa and returning to his homeland a failure, he concocts Leela, an untraceable computer virus named after his favourite Bollywood starlet.
She gets increasingly vexed by Les who insists she say particularly silly things over the airwaves.
Ministers have begun work on the vexed issue of economic union.
As a social activist, she was vexed by the invisibility of significant sections of the community - the homeless, the overweight and the elderly.
One prompt for this project was a meeting of senior Scottish businessmen and politicians earlier this year on the vexed issue of how the country attracts and retains talented individuals.
His chief reaction was not repentance nor dramatic interest, but a vexed longing to unwish the whole affair. The Trail of the Hawk A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life
With that Cheni sighed in frustration, vexed at having him not be able to understand him.
She spoke steadily, but the effort ached through her whole frame, especially when the last word illumined John Plantagenet's face with strange sweet light, quenched as his lip trembled, his nostril quivered, his eye even moistened, as he said, 'It is enough, lady; I will no more vex one who is vexed enough already; and you will so far trust me as to regard me as your protector, if you should be in need?' The Caged Lion
This is a vexed question about which there is much debate, and until there is a satisfactory resolution, Australian higher education will not attain the desired standards of international excellence.
It didn't suit him a bit, though; he stood looking vexed and then flung away the gasper and demanded: "Why the devil can't you die clean?" to which I confess I had no ready answer. Watershed
The second vexed question is the casualty count. Times, Sunday Times
Mr. McGregor takes several of those vexed Balanchine features - the flexed feet, the hyperextension of individual limbs, and the overcrossing of two or more limbs - and takes them, as Mr. Forsythe did in the 1980s, further. NYT > Home Page
I was actually mad at this new French boss - miffed, annoyed, vexed - about getting promoted.
These days, though, we're all deafened not just by the advancing years, but by the ticking of our biological clocks, and fertility is a vexed issue for exactly the opposite reasons.
Round at health they are vexed by news of cigarette smoke blowing back through open doors. Times, Sunday Times
I'm slightly vexed to find that walking is restricted to footpaths during the grouse nesting season (May to August).

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