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Example sentences for: vexed

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The WP lead brings word that the Supreme Court, confronted with its first chance to take up the issue of a particular vexed type of late-term abortion, decided to punt, prompting an angry dissent from conservative justices Thomas, Rehnquist and Scalia.
The Vatican's new, revised guide to exorcism, "De Exorcismis et Supplicantionibus Quibusdam," lists these three warning signs but cautions that exorcists "must not consider people to be vexed by demons who are suffering from some psychic illness."
Does thou laugh to see how fools are vexed?
That is not for the want of speculative comment by those who offered largely folk etymologies, which readers of VERBATIM will recall so sorely vexed Walter W. Skeat.
Many participants suggested that Woolsey vexed Helms with her unladylike display of proto-male behavior--spitting, cursing, and scratching your balls.