adv. [f. prec. + -LY.] In a vexed manner; with vexation.
1748. Richardson, Clarissa (1811), II. xxiv. 165. My heart is vexedly easy, if I may so describe it. Vexedly—because of the apprehended interview with Solmes.
1796. Anna Seward, Lett. (1811), IV. 241. I am in a society which makes me vexedly feel the rapid flight of those weeks, whose period must close an intellectual intercourse very gratifying.
1856. Household Words, XIII. 300/1. Then he turned round, neither vexedly nor impatiently.
1865. Dickens, Mut. Fr., II. xvi. Eugene answers, and answers hastily and vexedly: ‘No, no, no; he doesn’t mean that.’
1901. Clive Holland, Mousmé, 223. ‘Some one else come and have her,’ she remarked vexedly.
