VEXATION

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vexation s.

1. supărare, necaz, ofensă, vexaţie.

2. neplăcere, dezagrement.

3. tachinerie, necăjire.

4.prigoană, persecuţie, şicană.

5. agitaţie, nelinişte, zbucium; muncă;

vexation of spirit tulburare.

6. ciudă; mânie.

7. (jur.) daună.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

Elizabeth blushed and blushed again with shame and vexation.

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)

No, Mr. Knightley, do not foretell vexation from that quarter.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

For the Preacher loved life, and did not want to die, saying, ‘For a living dog is better than a dead lion.’ He preferred the vanity and vexation to the silence and unmovableness of the grave.

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

But though the conference had seemed full long to him, and though on looking at Fanny he saw rather a flush of vexation, he inclined to hope that so much could not have been said and listened to without some profit to the speaker.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

He joined them on their entering the town, and attended them to their aunt's where his regret and vexation, and the concern of everybody, was well talked over.

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)

All was safe and prosperous; and as the removal of one solicitude generally makes way for another, Emma, being now certain of her ball, began to adopt as the next vexation Mr. Knightley's provoking indifference about it.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

He is a person I never think of from one month's end to another, said Mr. Knightley, with a degree of vexation, which made Emma immediately talk of something else, though she could not comprehend why he should be angry.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

In spite of her vexation, she could not help feeling it almost ridiculous, that she should have the very same distressing and delicate office to perform by Harriet, which Mrs. Weston had just gone through by herself.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

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