bedeviled, thorny, perplexing, ticklish, touchy, confounded, knotty, puzzled, flummoxed, conundrum, intractable, befuddled, prickly, exasperated, unsettled, nettlesome, irked, irritated, riddle, contentious, baffled, quandary, bothered, unresolved, preoccupied, annoyed, grappled, dogged, irksome, stymied, pressing, nagging, perturbed, mystifying, clouded, rankled, peeved, discomforted, elusive, loggerheads, pondered, nettled, festering, frustrated, unforthcoming, troublesome, bugbear, infuriated, beset, dilemma, nonplused, sidestepped, angered, unnerved, hackles, wrangle, discomfited, bewildered, agonized, debated, dither, enigma, plaguing, sticky wicket, confused, insolvable, ambivalent, miffed, despaired, bemused, inscrutable, complicated, riled, incensed, problematic, issue, recalcitrant, hamstrung, solved, stumped, unanswerable, beleaguering, unhappy, question, eludes, confronting, tetchy, amused, needled, bane, exacerbated, trickiest, intransigent, simmering, anathema, uneasy, paradox, unimpressed, resolved, impatient, irresolvable, pained, fond, hard, keen, queer, hurt, madam, sensible, tiring, earnest, evil, heavy, jeopardy, lies, manifest, mortification, peril, pleasing, sane, sickness, travail, troubled, perplexed, saddened, agitated, fretful, sorrowful, angry, tormented, difficult, unquiet, dejected, despondent, grieved, tortured, worried

harassed, harried, pestered