vexing glass
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.58 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "In the German quarter of the city of New York, that is, in that part of the great American metropolis where German life appears as if it were reflected in a vexing glass' ; where the houses are high , the rooms low , and the streets narrow ; where the sunbeams breed miasma from the grocer's cabbage , the saloon - keeper's empty barrels , and the landlord's garbage boxes on the sidewalks—there I found the habitation of the educated German mechanic."
- "Normal notions, correctly appreciated by the intellect, thus become caricature when reflected in the vexing-glass of the emotions, and it cannot be surprising if individuals with such a contrary mind are prone to act in a contrary manner ."
- "Müller achieves this presentist vexing-glass effect although he remains textually much closer to Shakespeare's play than Dürrenmatt ."
Inflected Forms
vexing glasses (plural)