vex

IPA: vˈɛks

Examples of "vex" in Sentences

That will really vex me when I publish in book form.
Advice for the day: do not vex EVIL SORCEROUS QUEENS.
Such conundrums will vex analysts long into the future.
There seemed no flies to vex him and he was languid with rest.
The word vex with us means to provoke, irritate, by petty provocations.
No more does his infernal laugh go echoing among the hills, and no more does his fat moon-face rise up to vex me.
Only those fools who cleave to the dread phrase "living in the moment" can avoid the waves or pin-pricks – it's a personality thing of unease that vex most of us.
The retention of Interior Minister Mansour al Essawy, seen by some as embodying the previous regime, is likely to further vex demonstrators and diminish the intended impact of Mr. Sharaf's cabinet shake-up.
"vex," therefore, is the heightening of grieving by a provocation unto anger and indignation: which sense is suited to the place and matter treated of, though the word signify no more but to "grieve;" and so it is rendered by lupeo, Gen. xlv.
For she held that a greater power than Setebos had made the world, leaving Setebos merely to "vex" it; while he contends that whoever made the world and its weakness, did so for the pleasure of vexing it himself; and that this greater power, the "Quiet," if it really exists, is above pain or pleasure, and had no motive for such a proceeding.