annoy

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Causing feelings of anger and displeasure
aggravate
aggrieve
alienate
anger
annoy
bend
give someone the shitsidiom
go too faridiom
goat
grate
hack someone off
nark
rile
rub
rub someone up the wrong wayidiom
ruffle
ruffle someone's feathersidiom
tit
tooth
troll

vex | American Dictionary

vex
verb[ T ]
us/veks/
to cause someone to feel annoyance or trouble:
The question that vexes Ben the most is, "Why me?"

vexing

adjectiveus/ˈvek·sɪŋ/
Rising gas prices are a vexing problem.

Examples of vex

vex
These product descriptions might well momentarily vex the reader.
Utilitarianism continues to vex its critics even in the absence of generally respected arguments in its favour.
The thesis of this analysis is that virtue ethics should be integral in housestaff education to face future vexing moral questions.
Discussions about questions that have vexed historians of culture and resistance under dictatorships elsewhere, are glossed over.
That unaligned block cannot reference the newly inserted cell, because it may only reference the entire vex/hex group or none of it.
Recognising sorted trophoblasts has been no less vexing.
Consent to organ donation, however, raises several vexing problems.
The lack of flexibility is particularly vexing when it comes to implementing fundamental operations such as showing a value or comparing two values.
First, the acquisition of a verb such as start requires grasp of some vexing aspects of scalar logic.
A fundamental puzzle has long vexed social scientists and historians.
This is the only instance in these years of the court being used to vex and harass contadini through multiple prosecutions.
This simple model may be an adequate explanation of the vexing relationship between the onset of glaciations and apparently closely synchronous episodes of explosive volcanism.
It is odd that utilitarianism continues to vex its critics even in the absence of generally respected arguments in its favour.
A second common feature is the vexing difficulty of determining exactly who owned what.
This raises vexing historical questions beyond the scope of this essay.
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