Can we use a bit of common sense on this vexed problem?

The question of which system to choose is a vexed one.

Yet the young boys did not become vexed or angry.

The vexed issue is how long ago they parted ways, and why.

A vexed area, without a doubt: to leave on or take off.

She half looked back with a vexed tightening of her mouth.

He addressed his wife and their guest in a vexed voice.

Cameron's relationship with pop culture has become a vexed issue.

One vexed point, however, I never did succeed in clearing up.

She had been thinking along just the opposite line, he knew; Dana turned a vexed look on him.

Something, it seems, I had to learn from him, how to value this vexed business of love."

I think Congress will pass it and settle the vexed question permanently.

She turned to go and find someone to settle the vexed question, but Jake stopped her.

Or a genuine effort to resolve the most vexed issues even though the moment has passed?

And then there is the vexed question of memoir vs. novel.

Nearly a week had drifted by, and still the thing remained a vexed mystery.

Meaning in music has always been a vexed question.

The gender gap was a quite vexed area of educational research, he added.

She made a vexed noise, and suddenly began to smell upset.

It is not the first time that Anthony has found herself leading the charge on this vexed issue.

This is, rather, a debate about hip-hop's vexed position in the American mainstream.

It was a fairly vexed history at the time.

Bellies opened and a shoulder fell through to the vexed heart.

The meaning of "family" in the entertainment world, though perhaps less vexed, is also not without its complexities.

The issue of detention is an extremely vexed subject, to put it mildly.

He laughed when I asked if anything had happened to vex him.

But do not vex your soul; we will get her.

It is always a great mistake to let a man see that he can vex you.

What did vex me a bit was that the man had departed without taking my order.

It seems we may all live to vex the gods a little longer, then.

She had been forced to vex him by that one denial.

And it's still lurking around to vex me, 23 weeks later.

Nathan sent it in to vex her, she was sure of that.

Might he not have said something to vex her ladyship?

I knew this division into two selves would vex me!

I'd have preferred not to vex him, but I saw no reason for "changing my life."

How many are the things that vex my heart!

"I had no time to vex over my pain, for worse things were upon me.

But it was not worth while to vex himself about a trifle.

That day many things had happened to vex him.

"And it seemed an awful shame to vex the old boy."

It was like she did it just to vex him.

Levi won't have it taken down just to vex us.

And then, if these mysteries weren't enough, another came along to vex him.

They moved about their ordinary tasks with no more than the concerns of a working day to vex them.

He who peeps through a hole may see what will vex him.

And then these thoughts would at the least be fled; Let us not fear such pain can vex the dead.

I would not vex my darling, for the wide world's riches.

"Justin, on the other hand, shall do his best to vex me."

A number of the plan's elements vex residents, however.