Vexation

Definition

vex / veks / v (esp passive) ( dated or fml ) စိတ္ဆိုးသည္။ စိတ္တိုသည္။ It vexed her that she had forgotton Peter's birthday. ❏ vexation / vek'seÇʃn / n ( dated or fml ) (က) [U] စိတ္ အေႏွာင့္အယွက္။ His behaviour has caused me great vexation. (ခ) [C esp pl ] ဒုကၡ။ life's little vexations. ❏ vexatious / vek'seÇʃǝs / adj ( dated or fml ) စိတ္တိုစရာ၊ ေဒါပြစရာေကာင္းေသာ။ ❏ vexed adj ၁။ ~ (at/with sb/sth) စိတ္ပူ[ေသာ]။ စိတ္ တို[ေသာ]။ She looked distinctly vexed. ၂။ (of a problem, etc) ေျဖရွင္းရခက္ေသာ။ မေျပလည္ေသာ။ tackle the vexed issue/ question of immigration. ❏ vexing adj စိတ္တိုစရာ။ ဦးေႏွာက္ေျခာက္စရာ။ vexing problems.

Examples

1. ‘What vexed me enough that all those details would matter
2. however
3. was the film's treatment of women.’
4. ‘As a Yorkshire born Aussie
5. the question of Scottish antipathy to the English has vexed me often.’
6. ‘The question that has long vexed evolutionary biologists is whether these ornaments actually tell you anything about the genetic health of a male.’
7. ‘Yesterday
8. he was vexed and frustrated as the weekend's fatalities ensured a flood of calls from journalists.’
9. ‘She'd given him no instructions just as the stresses of his situation began to vex him.’
10. ‘I'm slightly vexed to find that walking is restricted to footpaths during the grouse nesting season (May to August).’
11. ‘His prices were too high for the Venetian grandees
12. who were as careful as himself with money
13. whilst the religious orders vexed him with quibbles and indecision.’
14. ‘As a social activist
15. she was vexed by the invisibility of significant sections of the community - the homeless
16. the overweight and the elderly.’
17. ‘However
18. many of us were vexed at our government and the souring relations with the States.’
19. ‘And his equanimity didn't help matters
20. especially when she was vexed at him.’
21. ‘Simultaneous translation is provided
22. but Donald Dewar is among the members vexed by the technology and his grimace is captured by photographers.’
23. ‘The debate about private car use in York has vexed York's politicians and transport planners for decades.’
24. ‘Times and editors change
25. and now instead of letters
26. the magazine chooses to vex their readers by not offering indices of back issues online.’
27. ‘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?’
28. ‘If the Declaration inspires us with lofty ideals
29. the Constitution vexes us with questions of interpretation.’
30. ‘It really vexes me to see that so many people believe that they should be able to dictate what a blogger does or does not write about.’
31. ‘Yes
32. it's sad that we are still vexed by the very same issues.’
33. ‘She gets increasingly vexed by Les who insists she say particularly silly things over the airwaves.’
34. ‘There is something about this musical distinction that vexes me
35. but for the sake of the argument I'd say upbeat rock 'n' roll.’
36. ‘I think I'll ask her this question that is vexing me so.’