vexed in the PONS Dictionary

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Dying of boredom, getting vexed by his own frivolousness but having no will to break free from these surroundings.
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He held nuanced reformist views on the vexed questions of the time, on clerical dress and church ceremonies.
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The precise relationship of dialectic and rhetoric remained vexed well into the sixteenth century, hinging on the role assigned to "loci".
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This concept, known as the joint hypothesis problem, has ever since vexed researchers.
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His ordinary appearance is of a portly, bald middle-aged man with blue eyes and blond whiskers, which he habitually tugs at when vexed.
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Among other things, these effects would include the quantum counterpart of the electromagnetic back-reaction that so vexed classical theorists of electromagnetism.
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His closing years were vexed by intrigue and sadness.
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In no time, the cops are vexed and decide to go on an indefinite strike.
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They were vexed and dolorous.
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He became ordinary professor at the university in 1836, and obtained a following among the students, because he treated vexed social and ecclesiastical problems.
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