(n.) Trouble; vexation; also, physical pain or smart of a sore, etc.
(n.) A strong passion or emotion of displeasure or antagonism, excited by a real or supposed injury or insult to one's self or others, or by the intent to do such injury.
(v. t.) To make painful; to cause to smart; to inflame.
(v. t.) To excite to anger; to enrage; to provoke.
Example Sentences:
(1) To become president of Afghanistan , Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai changed his wardrobe and modified his name, gave up coffee, embraced a man he once denounced as a “known killer” and even toyed with anger management classes to tame a notorious temper.
(2) Polls indicated that anger over the government shutdown, which was sharply felt in parts of northern Virginia, as well as discomfort with Cuccinelli's deeply conservative views, handed the race to McAuliffe, a controversial Democratic fundraiser and close ally of Bill and Hillary Clinton.
(3) The figures, published in the company’s annual report , triggered immediate anger from fuel poverty campaigners who noted that energy suppliers had just been rapped over the knuckles by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) for overcharging .
(4) Black males with low intentions to use condoms reported significantly more negative attitudes about the use of condoms (eg, using condoms is disgusting) and reacted with more intense anger when their partners asked about previous sexual contacts, when a partner refused sex without a condom, or when they perceived condoms as interfering with foreplay and sexual pleasure.
(5) Make Quinn stay with B613 I think it would be difficult to bring her back to the fold at Pope and Associates (unless they’re playing the long con and her infiltration of B613 is part of the plan), but her anger would be well utilized against her former coworkers.
(6) Republicans remain wary of a contentious debate on the divisive issue, which could anger their core voters and undercut potential electoral gains in the November elections when control of Congress will be at stake.
(7) Although it never really has a sense of fun and burns with ill-focused anger, The Paperboy represents a kind of triumph, surely, even if it's just in getting such high-profile actors to do such low-down deeds.
(8) The territory’s chief executive Leung Chun-ying, has become a lightning rod for the protesters’ anger .
(9) But instead, he is going to crack under public anger over the huge amounts senior bankers have been paying themselves.
(10) Was that misreading the mood music of the referendum?” He claimed that many Tories had expressed their anger directly to Rudd about the controversial policy, which has since been watered down.
(11) Even in the best case this would cause a serious shock to the UK economy.” The CBI report angered Brexit campaigners, who believe the government is trying to scare voters into supporting Britain remaining in the EU.
(12) The walk-out is by far the most serious confrontation with the government since the elevation of the conservative-led, three-party coalition to power in June – and, says unionists, underlines the scale of public anger over cuts that are widely seen to be unfair.
(13) There was already simmering anger over the deaths of civilians in US drone attacks aimed at alleged terrorists inside Pakistan and over an incident in February in which a CIA contractor, Raymond Davis, shot dead two men on the street in Lahore he said were trying to rob him.
(14) Photograph: Rex Features If Brookstein had confined his anger to legitimate provocations, it would be easier to sympathise, for he seems to have suffered more than enough of them on The X Factor.
(15) I have in the past predicted anger, as the consequences of the recession for public spending become clear; I think the process of expressing that anger has barely begun.
(16) Photograph: Guardian Environmental activists now argue that if Obama fails to recognise that anger and block the pipeline, he could hurt his chances in the 2012 elections.
(17) Five needs were reported by more than 30% of the sample as not being met: 1) being able to talk about fears of the future, illness, or death; 2) being occupied and having things to do; 3) having up-to-date information about HIV; 4) having someone to help them with their feelings of depression, helplessness, anxiety, or anger; and 5) help for the patient's family.
(18) But I have heard from other people who have lost spouses in this way, and fathers and mothers, and anger is perfectly appropriate.
(19) The Kremlin has so far refrained from dealing with mounting anger against people from Russia's turbulent North Caucasus region, as well as migrant workers from central Asia, which has grown as the country's oil-fuelled economic boom has given way to the hardship of the global financial crisis.
(20) Denial, minimization, anger, withdrawal and noncompliance may occur.
Vexation
Definition:
(n.) The act of vexing, or the state of being vexed; agitation; disquiet; trouble; irritation.
(n.) The cause of trouble or disquiet; affliction.
(n.) A harassing by process of law; a vexing or troubling, as by a malicious suit.
Example Sentences:
(1) I can be critical of the no quality of the performance, the naive mistakes sometimes but not in front of the goal.” He would admit vexation at the result.
(2) Along the way his deployment of Ki Sung-yueng as a deep-lying, smooth-passing, ball-retaining, central midfielder left Yaya Touré a study in vexation.
(3) For his part, Evelyn never concealed the boredom and vexation Bron caused him.
(4) Gametocytes from 2 experimentally infected lizards were infective to L. vexator during the course of the acute infection.
(5) As Texans, it is a particular vexation that this president's attitude toward the interests of our state has occasionally bordered on contempt, particularly in decisions relating to the Nasa budget and the energy sector.
(6) Patients with a hysterical personality structure who are dominated by Oedipus or phallic problems and who, by inhibiting the sexual impulse, frequently suffer from sexual disorders may, in a situation experienced in such an atmosphere of conflict, regress to the stage of urethral erotism; at this stage, the symptoms serve as self-punishment as well as reduction of the fear of guilt and punishment; the unconscious vexation and frustration manifest themselves in these symptoms.
(7) It is suggested that the vexator series of the subgenus originated in the Nearctic Region and extended southwards along the Andes (peruensis series) whereas the oswaldoi series is a South American assemblage originating in Gondowana.
(8) A "hassle index" identified three dimensions of vexation in practice: problems with running a practice, medical conditions of patients, and social characteristics of patients.
(9) Labour MP Simon Danczuk recently tweeted his vexation after encountering “beggars” close to a pub: “Begging – counted 4 beggars between Rochdale Exchange & Wheatsheaf entrances last Tuesday.
(10) She makes a face that is a mixture of diligence and vexation – she was eating plenty of fruit and vegetables already.
(11) Adams doesn’t like the quotidian routine of small vexations that make up a political career; he likes the big game, and he has played it well in sidelining the nationalist rival the SDLP .
(12) Transmission studies carried out in the laboratory incriminated Phlebotomus vexator occidentis as a vector of a species of trypanosome that infects Bufo boreas halophilus.