How to Use vexed in a Sentence

vexed

adjective

• She was feeling somewhat vexed.
• This bumpin' beat will save your ass if your lover is vexed.
  — Kat Bein, Billboard, 15 Nov. 2017
• The day: all vexed phone calls and botched connections.
  — James Ellroy, Vanities, 7 Oct. 2017
• 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
• He’d be approached by men who wanted to broker a sale, and leave them vexed.
  — Michael Lapointe, The Atlantic, 11 May 2018
• 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
• 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 make the politics even more vexed, the U.S. has accused the Chinese government of genocide against the Uyghurs.
  — David Remnic, The New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2021
• Both men owe their prominence to vexed Irish relations with Britain.
  — The Economist, 6 Feb. 2020
• 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
• If Trump versus Biden is a vexed choice, Pence versus Harris is a no-brainer.
  — Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 2 Nov. 2020
• For years, Hamas’ tight grip on Gaza vexed Mideast mediators.
  — Washington Post, 21 June 2018
• 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
• The question of what will happen to the 70 dances Mr. Alston has created for his company is more vexed.
  — New York Times, 18 Feb. 2020
• 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
• How did a child with such a vexed relationship to her own appearance come to believe she was meant for the spotlight?
  — Emily Lordi, The New Yorker, 2 Oct. 2020
• During his teenage years, as his fashion interests bloomed, that secret took on a vexed name.
  — Nathan Heller, Vogue, 29 Aug. 2023
• But over the past decade that trade-off has rarely been a vexed choice, because inflationary pressure has stayed oddly low.
  — The Economist, 12 July 2019
• His book is a handy introduction to a vexed debate on the infinite power of the finite mortal mind.
  — The Economist, 22 Aug. 2019
• 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
• Florida, like the rest of the country, has always had a vexed relationship with science.
  — Diane Roberts, The New Republic, 10 Apr. 2020
• 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
• 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
• Researchers have long been puzzled by the disease and vexed by how long it’s taking to unravel its mysteries.
  — Erin Blakemore, Washington Post, 6 May 2018
• What Biden now faces vexed predecessors in struggles against smallpox, polio, measles and swine flu.
  — John Harwood, CNN, 5 Dec. 2021
• 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
• And the trial has touched only lightly on the vexed issue of whether, as happened often in postcolonial Africa, foreign powers had a hand in the young leader’s death.
  — New York Times, 9 Mar. 2022
• 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
• As Reilly shows, the task was in fact so vexed that the FBI lagged behind a group of independent citizen sleuths, whose work both resulted in many breakthroughs and revealed worrying weak spots in the justice system.
  — Grace Segers, The New Republic, 10 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024