[adjective]Vexed means difficult to deal with and causing a lot of disagreement and argument.The government has to deal with the vexed question of how to reduce its spending.The question of how wars end is a vexed one.His views about language acquisition have changed people's ideas about that vexed issue/subject.He had a vexed relationship with his mother-in-law.
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Meaning of VEXED in English
Cambridge English vocab. Кембриджский английский словарь. 2012