Words similar to vexed

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."
Vexed by discord, the founding families find a convenient scapegoat in a colony of single women that springs up at a ruined Catholic home for Indian girls 15 miles away.
Jones wrote that Charles Lee was “so much vexed with rebellion, with Republicans and Presbyterians, that by his will he ordered his body not to be buried within three miles of a Presbyterian meeting house, conventicle, or a schism shop.”
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.