The word "vexed" is correct and usable in written English.
It is an adjective used to describe someone who is annoyed, irritated, or frustrated. For example, "The customer was vexed when the store did not have the item in stock."
In a gallery across the street, Justine Brodie is similarly vexed.
In fact, just as Mirren, the actress, has acquired the regal confidence to leave the theatre and command silence in the streets (when vexed by drummers), it has become easy to imagine her double deploring, if not a hereditary monarchy, then the lamentably few roles – outside her palaces – available to older working women.
"Has anything vexed you as much politically as the mansion tax?" "Inequality," he says surprisingly.
This has vexed him and the complainants, of which there are now 18, ever since.
TODAY's recommended economics writing: Vexed by the government's poor handing of the banking problem, Yves Smith finds herself in a warranted state of apoplexy Team Obama is taking the cowardly approach of distributing the costs among the most disenfranchised group in the process, namely the taxpayer, when there far more obvious and logical groups to take the hits.
The Republicans who are not on board with the reform effort are vexed that Mr Rubio's ideas are so moderate that even the White House has welcomed them.
So the Supreme Court's decisions try to do what policy-makers could not.How non-obvious an idea needs to be to qualify for a patent has long vexed America's legal minds.
He has been horribly vexed in the current series because one of his best captains, Vito Spatafore, has been spotted in a gay night club dressed in full regalia.
This question so vexed the real President Yeltsin during his first term in office that he set up a national competition in search of an all-embracing Russian idea.
That question vexed America when it first sought to trade with Japan in the 1850s.
The soaring prices that vexed Mr Grantham in 2011 have fallen back since then, and will continue to do so as China's economy evolves away from an investment-led growth model that gobbles up steel and energy.
