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Discover LudwigThe phrase "vexation at" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English
It is typically used to express annoyance or irritation towards someone or something. Example: "He felt a strong sense of vexation at the constant interruptions during his important presentation."
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Perhaps you let out a "pff" of vexation at the drop in corporation tax.
At the same time, the event was an exhibition of Obama's vaunted realism, which just now involves acknowledging limits in a voice that mingles regret and vexation at "my Republican friends," as he calls them.
At first he felt a repugnance toward Hegel's doctrines; when Marx fell sick it was partially, as he wrote his father, "from intense vexation at having to make an idol of a view I detested".
At times, she employed stinging language to express her vexation at Mr. Abu-Jamal's ability to avoid execution, calling the judges who overturned Mr. Abu-Jamal's death sentence "dishonest cowards".
By laughing at him, we compound his volcanic vexation at, say, the washing machine that won't give up his clothes without a fight, the spa hotel and the flawed concept of "panic buying".
And which of us there can say we did not secretly fantasise that Mitchell would suddenly lose it and at least blurt out to the committee, in recognition of its support for Britain's aid programme but in vexation at its persistent questioning, what he has admitted he told the police that evening: "I thought you guys were supposed to f***ing help us"?
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Although Mr. Ciampa's projects can be ambitious — last month he led an 18-hour performance of Erik Satie's "Vexations" at the Seligmann Center for the Arts in Chester — he and Mr. Egan plan to create original compositions for a festival set that has broad appeal.
Cage took a special liking to a short, gnomic, harmonically directionless 1893 piece called "Vexations," at the beginning of which Satie wrote, "To play this motif eight hundred forty times in a row, it would be advisable to prepare oneself beforehand, in the deepest silence, through serious immobilities".
Apple's vexation showed at the conference.
He scowls with vexation, as if even he were puzzled about his identity.
Adam Smith spoke for many when he bemoaned the "unnecessary trouble, vexation, and oppression" the people suffer at the hands of the tax-gatherers.The White House claims to be listening.
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