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Recent Examples of vexingly
But his spasms, vexingly, grew more frequent and severe.
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Tao Lin, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
Tao Lin, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for vexingly
Adverb
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There is, of course, a difference here, that being the fact that Netflix has annoyingly split season 2 of Wednesday into two parts, with the second airing on September 3, a month after the first.—
Paul Tassi,
Forbes.com,
21 Aug. 2025
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Advertisement Opioid addiction is distressingly common in nearly every contact and combat sport, but Kerr was isolated from the endemic abuse of painkillers in the industry.—
Rory Doherty,
Time,
5 Sep. 2025
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Naturally, the theft of the ghost shirt by the stooges in the employ of Roy Lee is accompanied by many deceased bodies — the first of the many bloodbaths in Americana, which has a distressingly expedient approach to on-screen carnage.—
Peter Tonguette,
The Washington Examiner,
22 Aug. 2025
Adverb
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But one other aspect that stands out is the ship carrying other dangerous specimens like a small eyeball octopus that possesses a host, or little pincher bugs that drain your blood and swell disgustingly to thirty times their size.—
Paul Tassi,
Forbes.com,
13 Aug. 2025
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Florida, disgustingly, would be next.—
Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
12 Aug. 2025
Adverb
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Presciently, disturbingly, Chocobar’s murder occurred on October 12, a day commemorated in Argentina as the start of Spanish colonialism in the Americas.—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
31 Aug. 2025
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After a few times, Sheryl Crow is disturbingly proficient at the task.—
Jonny Thomson,
Big Think,
20 Aug. 2025
Adverb
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Remarkably — and alarmingly to all but the most Anglo-centric observer — that is more than the French, German, Italian and Spanish leagues combined.—
Oliver Kay,
New York Times,
4 Sep. 2025
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Childhood is a time of enchantment, and a mother is a daughter’s first sorceress—omnipotent, enthralling, sometimes alarmingly so.—
Rebecca Mead,
New Yorker,
3 Sep. 2025
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“Vexingly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vexingly. Accessed 8 Sep. 2025.
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