vexed

annoyed, irritated or distressed

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

much debated, discussed or disputed

• 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 […]

simple past and past participle of vexform-ofparticiplepast