vexations
- plural of vexation.
Example Sentences
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Ahead of Sunday’s election for a new parliament and government, those vexations are being heard again as the European Union country’s two main parties, the center-left Socialists and the center-right Social Democrats, compete for power.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 27, 2022
By now, the litany of vexations is well known: the jammed phone lines, the hours on hold, the online system that balks and crashes, the inexplicable responses to re-file and then re-file again.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 17, 2020
Bach’s vexations, his rages, his blind spots, even his hatreds, are our own.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 25, 2016
Brandeis, he argues, is “the Jeffersonian who has most to teach us about our contemporary vexations involving political economy, civil liberties, and Zionism.”
From Washington Post ● Jun. 8, 2016
She had been accustomed to very great disappointments and vexations; and, with a spirit above her years, she had borne them all, and had shown an energy of mind and activity worthy of better things.
From The History of Margaret Catchpole A Suffolk Girl by Cobbold, Richard
