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Example sentences for "vexatiously"

Lexicographically close words:
vewy; vex; vexation; vexations; vexatious; vexe; vexed; vexedly; vexes; vexeth
  1. That portion was vexatiously hidden by an intervening clump of bushes.

  2. There is not a little consensus of opinion that Wallace proceeded to France after the battle of Falkirk, but this part of his career is vexatiously obscure.

  3. Harry is definite--doubly definite; but he is vexatiously contradictory.

  4. I told you I was vexatiously detained, almost at your gates.

  5. I was vexatiously detained--" "So George Bulmer is dead, in a London gutter!

  6. Some porpoises occasionally appeared, and whenever they did, the crew were sanguine in their expectation of having a speedy change in the wind, which had been so vexatiously contrary, but they were disappointed in every instance.

  7. His voice had deserted him, and his ideas had vexatiously scattered like frightened wild geese.

  8. She burst into a peal of laughter, while he stood confounded and speechless, trying to look unconscious, and vexatiously aware of how completely he failed.

  9. If you have not your eye on a steady brown setter at the moment he drops on grouse, you may spend half an hour most vexatiously in searching for him.

  10. He was merely in active touch with the troubles of the time, and vexatiously divided within himself.

  11. Robert was completely absorbed, while Barbara's interest in her book was vexatiously divided.

  12. Moreover, if either party has vexatiously subjected the other to expense, the committee can award costs like a court of law, and this is occasionally done.

  13. She was, this morning, vexatiously conscious of a warmer hue in the back pleats than in the front breadth of her mauve, cashmere dress, sparsely decorated with bows of but indifferently white ribbon.

  14. Existence in itself is vexatiously wearisome at times--at least to feeble persons, like myself.

  15. Some porpoises occasionally appeared and whenever they did the crew were sanguine in their expectation of having a speedy change in the wind which had been so vexatiously contrary but they were disappointed in every instance.

  16. There were moments when she made him feel vexatiously young.

  17. All capacity for work had been dispelled by that vexatiously engaging son of his, with his heart in India and his head among the stars.


  18. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "vexatiously" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.