Crossword-Solution: VEXING 6 letters, 21 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 17

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Vexing p. pr. & vb. n. of Vex

We have 21 clues for the answer “VEXING”

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Troubling 6 answers
Nettlesome 7 answers
Pesky 13 answers
uninvited 23 answers
exasperating 25 answers
galling 26 answers
unpleasing 30 answers
DRIVING someone crazy 31 answers
bothersome 31 answers
unpalatable 32 answers
unbidden 39 answers
Irritating 43 answers
unsavoury 52 answers
uninviting 58 answers
unwelcome 58 answers
unattractive 61 answers
Annoying 65 answers
challenging 67 answers
unmanageable 72 answers
irksome 74 answers
Vexatious 79 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ATREE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with VEXING (5)

That would serve to satisfy the inquiries as to my whereabouts, which were probably still vexing the Prefect of the Police of Strelsau.
The Prisoner of Zenda Anthony Hope 1993
Great mobs of travelling sheep constantly passed through the run, eating up the grass and vexing the soul of the manager.
Three Elephant Power Andrew Barton 'Banjo' Paterson 2008
Carpenters next, appeared, making a tremendous racket among the outbuildings, strewing the green grass with pine shavings and chips of chestnut joists, and vexing the whole antiquity of the place with their discordant renovations.
Mosses from an Old Manse Nathaniel Hawthorne 1996
There were also parcels of new music--though the piano (it had come years ago by the Sofala in the damp atmosphere of the forests was generally out of tune.) It was vexing to be cut off from everything for sixty days at a stretch sometimes, without any means of knowing what was the matter.
End of the Tether Joseph Conrad 2006
His treatment of the Moravians was characteristic, for he was courtesy itself to the new-comers who had money to spend, inconsiderate when hard times came, deaf to appeals for settlement of certain vexing questions, and harsh when their wills were opposed to his.
The Moravians in Georgia Adelaide L. Fries 1996

Quotes with VEXING (3)

My God." He pushed away from the bedpost. "Friends! And do you fall into bed with any man who's 'dear' to you? How am I to take that?""Of course I don't." She stood up, letting the knotted scarf slip away. "I can't seem to help myself. With you. About that. It's extremely vexing.""You're quite right on that count," he said sullenly. "I'm damned vexed. I'd like to vex you right here on the floor, in fact. And the idea of Sturgeon vexing you is enough to dispose me to murder. I…
Laura Kinsale Lessons in French
Why can’t people get along without criticizing one another?” Urashima shakes his head as he ponders this rudimentary question. “Never have the bush clover blooming on the beach, nor the little crabs who skitter o’er the sand, nor the wild geese resting their wings in yonder cove found fault with me. Would that human beings too were thus! Each individual has his own way of living. Can we not learn to respect one another’s chosen way? One makes every effort to live in a dignifi…
Osamu Dazai Otogizoshi: The Fairy Tale Book of Dazai Osamu
... Religious observances, once so full of suffering and awe, have become accommodating and benign. Teachers go out of their way to avoid embarrassing, insulting, overworking, or otherwise vexing their students. Each year public language is further purged of impurities that might injure sensitive groups. Prime-time television series seem dedicated to the comforting message that things are really okay. Indeed, modern society's war on pain has been vastly more successful than its war on pain's causes.
Robert Grudin The Grace of Great Things: Creativity and Innovation
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Appears in: LAT, Newsday, USA TODAY.

Used 4 times in crossword archives (2006–2018).