vexation

As for the state’s notoriously prolonged vote-counting process, it may be a source of vexation.

Her vexation then turns into humiliation and shame, then to debilitating depression.

He can’t tell if Romy’s vexation is genuine or just another part of their game, and tries to figure it out with a command.

Strange, too, that so few books deal substantively with a near-universal vexation, by which I mean the tax system.

In her interpretation of these throbbing songs of forbidden love, she came from a place of clarity and equanimity rather than vexation and strife.