Vexed

Nothing vexed her more than his selfishness.

I was vexed at his irresolute attitude.

Oh, no, I'm not vexed—don't worry yourself. I'm too sorry for you to leave any room for anger in my mind.

He was specially desirous to help recluses and those who required spiritual consolation, and who were vexed by evil spirits.

The question of how far persons who are victims of diseased mind shall be held criminally responsible for their acts has vexed judges, jurors, doctors, and lawyers for the last hundred years.

Are you vexed?

She became more and more vexed as she struggled to cope with the demands of the job.

He would be left in no doubt that they were annoyed. He might even go so far as to deduce that they were quite vexed.

The question, however, as to whether rinderpest bile is capable of producing the disease in a herd innoculated with it is a very vexed one, and round this point heated controversies have been waged in other places than in Natal.

I leave aside the vexed questions about whether one or two peploi were woven and presented to Athena during the Greater (every four years) and Lesser (every year) Panathenaic festivals […]