vex
verb (used with object)
was vexing
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past progressiveof vex.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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But 911 call analysis was vexing because it didn't look like Harpster had ever actually testified.
From Salon ● Jan. 1, 2023
To academics and critics scrabbling away in the ideological playpens constructed by the likes of Clement Greenberg, Michael Fried and Rosalind Krauss, Freud’s stubborn devotion to the possibilities of realist portraiture was vexing.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 6, 2022
This was vexing until I was struck by its profound significance: I may be old, but I’m not so old that I carry pens around!
From Slate ● Jan. 29, 2015
But his phrase, used in an interview with the PBS NewsHour, was vexing.
From Time ● Aug. 29, 2013
It was vexing to find so much gross superstition still extant in this last decade of the nineteenth century, certainly.
From Fifty-Two Stories For Girls by Alfred H. (Alfred Henry) Miles
