Synonyms for vexing

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1. exasperating, infuriating, maddening, vexingadjective

   extremely annoying or displeasing

   "his cavelier curtness of manner was exasperating"; "I've had an exasperating day"; "her infuriating indifference"; "the ceaseless tumult of the jukebox was maddening"

   Synonyms:
   nettlesome, annoying, maddening, irritating, galling, teasing, plaguy, bothersome, exasperating, aggravating, plaguey, pestiferous, vexatious, pesky, pestering, exacerbating, infuriating

   Antonyms:
   pleasing, agreeable

2. annoying, bothersome, galling, irritating, nettlesome, pesky, pestering, pestiferous, plaguy, plaguey, teasing, vexatious, vexingadjective

   causing irritation or annoyance

   "tapping an annoying rhythm on his glass with his fork"; "aircraft noise is particularly bothersome near the airport"; "found it galling to have to ask permission"; "an irritating delay"; "nettlesome paperwork"; "a pesky mosquito"; "swarms of pestering gnats"; "a plaguey newfangled safety catch"; "a teasing and persistent thought annoyed him"; "a vexatious child"; "it is vexing to have to admit you are wrong"

   Synonyms:
   irritating, exasperating, corruptive, pestilential, petulant, bothersome, mocking, galling, pestilent, cranky, perversive, pesky, scratchy, pestiferous, pettish, nettlesome, dirty, painful, irritable, plaguey, quizzical, peevish, irritative, plaguy, maddening, infuriating, annoying, tetchy, testy, fractious, techy, vexatious, pestering, peckish, teasing

   Antonyms:
   pleasing, agreeable

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1. List of paraphrases for "vexing":

   bothersome, irritating, frustrating, irritant

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1. John Stephenson:

   You would hope for a bit better snap back, but there's nothing on the growth front, so that's the big vexing question right now: where's the growth and when's it going to come? until we see an indication that (global growth) is getting much worse, which would not be good for markets, or we see it getting much better, I think we're essential range bound.

2. William Shakespeare:

   Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

3. John Kasich:

   I'm going to bring back $14 billion of Ohio money back to Ohio so we can deal with some of our vexing problems.

4. Andrew Chang:

   Many countries, including the Andrew Chang, continue to face vexing shortages of PPE, the Results underscore the importance of providing adequate access to PPE and also suggest that systemic racism associated with inequalities to access to PPE likely contribute to the disproportionate risk of infection among minority frontline healthcare workers.

5. Lindsay Zanno:

   With a lethal combination of bone-crunching bite forces, stereoscopic vision, rapid growth rates, and colossal size, tyrant dinosaurs reigned uncontested for 15 million years leading up to the end-Cretaceous extinction -- but it wasn't always that way, when and how quickly tyrannosaurs went from wallflower to prom king has been vexing paleontologists for a long time. The only way to attack this problem was to get out there and find more data on these rare animals.

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