vexing

• abashing
• abrasive
• abstract
• abstruse
• acid
• addling
• afflictive
• affront
• affronting
• aggravating
• aggravation
• agitating
• agonizing
• alarming
• amiss
• angering
• anguishing
• annoyance
• annoying
• antagonizing
• anxious
• apprehensive
• arch
• arduous
• artful
• bad
• badgering
• badinage
• baffling
• baiting
• ballyragging
• bamboozling
• banter
• beating
• bedevilment
• befogging
• befuddling
• beguiling
• bemusing
• bewildering
• biting
• bitter
• boring
• bother
• bothering
• bothersome
• brattish
• bratty
• brickbat
• buffaloing
• bugging
• bullyragging
• burdensome
• carking
• casus belli
• cause
• chaff
• chafing
• chagrining
• challenge
• complex
• confounding
• confusing
• consequential
• cozening
• creepy
• damaged
• damaging
• dangerous
• dare
• dark
• deceiving
• deep
• deficient
• defy
• deleterious
• delicate
• deluding
• demanding
• depressing
• destructive
• detrimental
• deviling
• devilling
• difficult
• disagreeable
• disappointing
• discombobulating
• discomfiting
• discomforting
• discommoding
• discomposing
• disconcerting
• discountenancing
• discouraging
• dismaying
• disorienting
• displeasing
• disquieting
• disruptive
• distasteful
• distractive
• distressful
• distressing
• disturbance
• disturbing
• duping
• eating
• embarrassing
• enflaming
• enigmatic
• enigmatical
• enraging
• entangled
• esoteric
• evil
• exacting
• exasperating
• exasperation
• excruciating
• exercising
• exigent
• fatiguing
• fazing
• flummoxing
• flustering
• fooling
• for the birds
• foreboding
• formidable
• foxing
• foxy
• fretting
• frightening
• frolicsome
• frosting
• frustrating
• fuddling
• galling
• getting
• getting to
• gloomy
• grabber
• grating
• graveling
• gravelling
• grievance
• grievous
• griping
• grounds
• gulling
• hagriding
• harassing
• harassment
• hard
• hard to explain
• hard to solve
• harmful
• harrowing
• harrying
• hassle
• hassling
• hazardous
• heavy
• heckling
• hidden
• hoaxing
• hoodwinking
• humbugging
• humiliating
• hurtful
• ill
• ill-behaved
• impeding
• impish
• importunate
• importune
• incensing
• incentive
• incommodious
• inconveniencing
• inconvenient
• indignity
• inducement
• inexplicable
• infestive
• inflaming
• infuriating
• injurious
• injury
• insidious
• instigation
• insult
• insulting
• intractable
• intricate
• intrusive
• involved
• irking
• irksome
• irritating
• irritation
• itching
• jangling
• jarring
• joking
• junky
• justification
• kidding
• knotty
• laborious
• labyrinthine
• lame
• loose
• maddening
• malicious
• malignant
• mazing
• mean
• meandering
• mediocre
• messy
• miffing
• misbehaving
• mischievous
• misguiding
• misleading
• mocking
• molestation
• mortifying
• motivation
• muddling
• muddying
• murder
• mysterious
• mystical
• mystifying
• nagging
• narking
• naughty
• nervous
• nettlesome
• nettling
• nice
• no good
• nonplusing
• nonplussing
• not good enough
• not up to par
• nuisance
• obscure
• obstinate
• offending
• offense
• offensive
• ominous
• onerous
• oppressive
• outraging
• painful
• paradoxical
• peeving
• perilous
• pernicious
• perplexing
• persecuting
• persecution
• perturbation
• perturbing
• pesky
• pessimistic
• pestering
• pestiferous
• pestilent
• pestilential
• pesty
• piquing
• plaguey
• plaguing
• plaguy
• playful
• poor
• posing
• precarious
• problematic
• problematical
• profound
• prophetic
• provocation
• provocative
• provoking
• puckish
• punishing
• putting out
• puzzling
• raillery
• rambling
• rankling
• rascal
• rascally
• rasping
• rattling
• reason
• rebarbative
• refractory
• regrettable
• remote
• repressive
• ribbing
• riling
• risky
• roiling
• rotten
• rough
• rousing
• rubbing the wrong way
• rude
• ruffling
• sad
• schlocky
• second
• severe
• sinful
• sinister
• sly
• snowing
• spiny
• spiteful
• spiting
• sportive
• startling
• sticking
• sticky
• strenuous
• stressful
• stringing along
• stumping
• stunning
• subtle
• taking in
• tangled
• taunt
• taunting
• taxing
• teasing
• tedious
• thin
• thorny
• threatening
• tickling
• ticklish
• tight
• tiresome
• toilsome
• torment
• tormenting
• tough
• tricking
• tricky
• trouble
• troublesome
• troubling
• troublous
• trying
• ugly
• unacceptable
• uncertain
• unclear
• undesirable
• undoing
• uneasy
• unfathomable
• ungovernable
• unhinging
• unintelligible
• unnerving
• unpalatable
• unpleasant
• unruly
• unsettling
• unsuitable
• unwelcome
• unworthy
• uphill
• upsetting
• vexation
• vexatious
• vicious
• wayward
• weak
• wearing on
• wearisome
• weighty
• weirding out
• wicked
• worrisome
• worrying
• wrong

• OK
• acceptable
• adequate
• agreeable
• aid
• aiding
• appeasing
• assistance
• assuring
• auspicious
• behaved
• beneficial
• calm
• calming
• cheering
• clear
• comfort
• comforting
• compliment
• conciliating
• consoling
• contenting
• contentment
• convenient
• delicate
• delight
• delightful
• delighting
• discouragement
• easy
• encouraging
• enlightening
• facile
• facilitation
• free
• friendly
• furtherance
• gentle
• gladdening
• good
• gratifying
• happiness
• happy
• help
• helpful
• hindrance
• informing
• joy
• kind
• manageable
• mild
• moderate
• mollifying
• nice
• obedient
• obliging
• pacifying
• peace
• placating
• plain
• pleasant
• pleasing
• pleasure
• praise
• praising
• prevention
• propitiating
• quieting
• reassuring
• regaling
• repression
• safe
• satisfactory
• satisfying
• settling
• simple
• sociable
• solacing
• soothing
• straightforward
• sufficient
• suitable
• support
• suppression
• uncomplicated
• unstressful
• untroubling
• useful
• wonderful

• verb
  1. To trouble aggressively, to harass.
  2. To annoy, irritate.
  3. To cause (mental) suffering to; to distress.
  4. To twist, to weave.
  5. To be irritated; to fret.
  6. To toss back and forth; to agitate; to disquiet.
• noun
  1. Vexation.

• The most vexing part of the puzzle was figuring out the hidden clue.
• She found his constant interruptions to be particularly vexing.
• The software bug presented a vexing challenge for the development team.
• It was vexing to deal with so many conflicting opinions during the meeting.
• The delay in delivery became a vexing issue for the customers.

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