0 to cause difficulty to someone, or to cause someone to feel angry, annoyed, or upset:
This issue looks likely to continue to vex the government.
1 to cause someone to feel annoyance or trouble:
The question that vexes Ben the most is, "Why me?"
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.
There are, however, some vexing problems in the research reported here.
Consent to organ donation, however, raises several vexing problems.