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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
Adverb
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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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These include those who disgustingly celebrated the murder of Brian Thompson and all but beatified his alleged assassin, and those who made light of and mocked the attack on Pelosi’s family and the Minnesota lawmakers.—
Agustina Vergara Cid,
Oc Register,
13 Sep. 2025
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Here, the Canadian auteur began to rewrite, or define altogether, body horror, and Shivers finds him at his most disgustingly wacky.—
Declan Gallagher,
EW.com,
13 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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Apparently, disturbingly short.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
5 Sep. 2025
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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
Adverb
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Animals are going extinct at an alarmingly fast rate, largely due to human activity.—
Darian Woods,
NPR,
9 Sep. 2025
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The answer, alarmingly, is yes.—
Virginia La Torre Jeker,
Forbes.com,
9 Sep. 2025
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“Vexingly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vexingly. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.
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