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vexingly adverb uk /ˈvek.sɪŋ.li/ us /ˈvek.sɪŋ.li/ in a way that is annoying or worrying, or that causes problems: It's vexingly difficult. The aim is to tackle the city's vexingly high poverty rates. He changed his story, leaving the truth vexingly uncertain. They described the taxes as vexingly burdensome. It was vexingly difficult to replicate these experiments in the laboratory. The demographic data are vexingly vague. As a politician, he was vexingly ineffective. Researchers investigated the similarities; vexingly, the investigation did not lead anywhere. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Annoying accursed aggravating annoying annoyingly ball-ache exasperatingly frustratingly gadfly galling gallingly irritating irritatingly limit maddening mither sickeningly spiteful stupid trying vexatious
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