vex
verb (used with object)
have been vexing
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present perfect progressiveof vex.present perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that began in the past, has continued continuously, and is still in progress.
Example Sentences
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“With coronavirus, we have an opportunity to examine issues that have been vexing us in this country for a very, very long time,” said Lindiwe Zulu, South Africa’s social development minister.
From Washington Post ● May 9, 2020
So the question—which would have been vexing for any president—is: What to do with this guy?
From Slate ● Apr. 28, 2011
I have been vexing myself a good deal about my future, but now I will take heart.
From John Halifax, Gentleman by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
The language must have been vexing, for as they sped along far above the passionless sea one jostled the other.
From Tropic Days by E. J. (Edmund James) Banfield
Surely no one here can have been vexing you?
From Vestigia Vol. I. by George Fleming
