Definition of vexatious in English:

vexatious

adjective vɛkˈseɪʃəsvɛkˈseɪʃəs

1Causing or tending to cause annoyance, frustration, or worry.
the vexatious questions posed by software copyrights
Example sentencesExamples
- This was a very vexatious issue in the first place and the way it was constructed caused a lot of angst.
- How did her Government's decision to amend the Resource Management Act 1991 last year by removing the Environment Court's power to grant security for costs help reduce the problem of frivolous and vexatious objectors?
- This week, Mr Dhillon wrote to our letters page to say he denied all the allegations in their entirety, claiming that he was being ‘used as a scapegoat in political wranglings arising from spurious and vexatious allegations’.
- Mr Kenzler said: ‘It is good to be exonerated from vexatious and childish allegations.’
- I question how vexatious accusations will be dealt with under this legislation.
- Scott is now under intense pressure to leave the club, after a series of inflammatory and vexatious statements about supporters, players, the press, the local council and the football authorities.
- If that be the case, then Monica is well within her right to fetter her freedom of speech but I am not prepared to follow suit, provided that my utterances are not frivolous or vexatious and always made in the best interest of the people.
- In keeping with today's litigious mood, more businesses are prepared to use the regulatory machinery to pursue their business interests against competitors, sometimes with vexatious claims.
- The big financial question, the one about The Sun story alleging vexatious contract negotiations, could wait no longer.
- This vexatious problem was resolved, incompletely, by civil war and secession.
- This coin, too, was designed to deal with the question of foreign currency circulating in the state - indeed, it represents one of the earliest attempts to solve that vexatious problem.
- On the issue of vexatious requests Ms O'Reilly said: ‘There is no empirical evidence to show they are there on a wide scale.’
- But what Herbert proposes is no mere flight from awkward questions and a vexatious world.
- Dance numbers will also create awareness on some of the vexatious problems that the world is now facing.
- On another issue that is causing us quite a lot of vexatious worry has been the need to repeatedly restate the same things over and over.
- Unfair dismissal laws were only introduced in 1993 and have had a number of undesirable effects in discouraging job creation and encouraging frivolous and vexatious claims.
- Meanwhile, true to form the National party is saying that the case is vexatious and ‘an absurd waste of time and taxpayer money’.
- There are a number of things happening that seem to be vexatious and uncontrollable.
- Obviously society should have no truck with vexatious or spurious claims, but when people suffer damage to their lives or to their careers it is only equitable that they should be awarded adequate compensation.
- ‘This is yet another vexatious regulation, increasing the ‘pariah’ status of people who smoke, consigning them ever deeper into the social dustbin.’
Synonyms
annoying, vexing, irritating, irksome, displeasing, infuriating, maddening, exasperating, provoking, galling, rankling, grating, jarring, harassing, harrying, bothersome, tiresome, troublesome, niggling
upsetting, perturbing, worrying, worrisome, concerning, trying, taxing, distressing, traumatic, unsettling, unpleasant
difficult, awkward, problematic, inconvenient, lamentable, deplorable
informal aggravating
1. 1.1Law Denoting an action or the bringer of an action that is brought without sufficient grounds for winning, purely to cause annoyance to the defendant.
  a frivolous or vexatious litigant
  Example sentencesExamples
  No man, let alone a vexatious litigant, has a vested right to bring or continue proceedings which are an abuse of the process of the court.
  The Commonwealth is in a position where it is saying that section 44 does not confer jurisdiction on the County Court untrammelled by the vexatious litigant order made by the Supreme Court.
  It seems that if such a defence fails, the vexatious litigant does require permission to institute appellate proceedings.
  Access to the courts can be and is limited by statute, for example by Section 42 of the Supreme Court Act 1981, which requires a vexatious litigant to obtain the permission of a high court judge to begin proceedings.
  Significantly, the vexatious litigant is not deprived of the right to bring proceedings.

Derivatives

vexatiously

adverb vɛkˈseɪʃəslivɛkˈseɪʃəsli

Notable among the reasons is the observation that the group is as variable as any group of crustaceans and the style of differentiation of body regions is different, but vexatiously familiar.
Example sentencesExamples
- The young man claims he was brutally beaten in Garda custody, vexatiously charged with assault and taken to court.
- She said: ‘I can't think of anything more dreadful than someone who is completely innocent and is vexatiously charged, having to live through the kind of publicity that goes with that.’
- So we had people with mistaken identity, we've had people vexatiously listed, we've had people who were listed for genuine debts, but the debts aren't severe, but the consequence of being listed on the database is.
- Where, in the opinion of the tribunal, a party has in bringing or conducting the proceedings acted frivolously, vexatiously, abusively, disruptively or otherwise unreasonably, the tribunal may make -

vexatiousness

noun

This vexatiousness is one instance of the gap between normative and descriptive domains.
Example sentencesExamples
- In the context, the focus of the attention of the Justice is obviously that of the propounded frivolousness or vexatiousness of the process.
- If that qualification is available in this jurisdiction, it must be in a case where plaintiff shows necessity, because ordinarily unnecessary vexatiousness follows from the multiplicity of suits.
- If nothing, it's a pretty accurate transcription of tedium and vexatiousness in comics form.
- She alleges that she is entitled to the vexatiousness penalties because the defendant engaged in improper claims practices.

Rhymes

Athanasius, audacious, bodacious, cactaceous, capacious, carbonaceous, contumacious, Cretaceous, curvaceous, disputatious, edacious, efficacious, fallacious, farinaceous, flirtatious, foliaceous, fugacious, gracious, hellacious, herbaceous, Ignatius, loquacious, mendacious, mordacious, ostentatious, perspicacious, pertinacious, pugnacious, rapacious, sagacious, salacious, saponaceous, sebaceous, sequacious, setaceous, spacious, tenacious, veracious, vivacious, voracious

Definition of vexatious in US English:

vexatious

adjectivevekˈsāSHəsvɛkˈseɪʃəs

1Causing or tending to cause annoyance, frustration, or worry.
the vexatious questions posed by software copyrights
Example sentencesExamples
- Obviously society should have no truck with vexatious or spurious claims, but when people suffer damage to their lives or to their careers it is only equitable that they should be awarded adequate compensation.
- There are a number of things happening that seem to be vexatious and uncontrollable.
- The big financial question, the one about The Sun story alleging vexatious contract negotiations, could wait no longer.
- Meanwhile, true to form the National party is saying that the case is vexatious and ‘an absurd waste of time and taxpayer money’.
- Scott is now under intense pressure to leave the club, after a series of inflammatory and vexatious statements about supporters, players, the press, the local council and the football authorities.
- This was a very vexatious issue in the first place and the way it was constructed caused a lot of angst.
- Dance numbers will also create awareness on some of the vexatious problems that the world is now facing.
- In keeping with today's litigious mood, more businesses are prepared to use the regulatory machinery to pursue their business interests against competitors, sometimes with vexatious claims.
- This week, Mr Dhillon wrote to our letters page to say he denied all the allegations in their entirety, claiming that he was being ‘used as a scapegoat in political wranglings arising from spurious and vexatious allegations’.
- If that be the case, then Monica is well within her right to fetter her freedom of speech but I am not prepared to follow suit, provided that my utterances are not frivolous or vexatious and always made in the best interest of the people.
- On another issue that is causing us quite a lot of vexatious worry has been the need to repeatedly restate the same things over and over.
- This coin, too, was designed to deal with the question of foreign currency circulating in the state - indeed, it represents one of the earliest attempts to solve that vexatious problem.
- On the issue of vexatious requests Ms O'Reilly said: ‘There is no empirical evidence to show they are there on a wide scale.’
- Mr Kenzler said: ‘It is good to be exonerated from vexatious and childish allegations.’
- But what Herbert proposes is no mere flight from awkward questions and a vexatious world.
- I question how vexatious accusations will be dealt with under this legislation.
- ‘This is yet another vexatious regulation, increasing the ‘pariah’ status of people who smoke, consigning them ever deeper into the social dustbin.’
- This vexatious problem was resolved, incompletely, by civil war and secession.
- How did her Government's decision to amend the Resource Management Act 1991 last year by removing the Environment Court's power to grant security for costs help reduce the problem of frivolous and vexatious objectors?
- Unfair dismissal laws were only introduced in 1993 and have had a number of undesirable effects in discouraging job creation and encouraging frivolous and vexatious claims.
Synonyms
annoying, vexing, irritating, irksome, displeasing, infuriating, maddening, exasperating, provoking, galling, rankling, grating, jarring, harassing, harrying, bothersome, tiresome, troublesome, niggling
1. 1.1Law Denoting an action or the bringer of an action that is brought without sufficient grounds for winning, purely to cause annoyance to the defendant.
  Example sentencesExamples
  No man, let alone a vexatious litigant, has a vested right to bring or continue proceedings which are an abuse of the process of the court.
  It seems that if such a defence fails, the vexatious litigant does require permission to institute appellate proceedings.
  Access to the courts can be and is limited by statute, for example by Section 42 of the Supreme Court Act 1981, which requires a vexatious litigant to obtain the permission of a high court judge to begin proceedings.
  The Commonwealth is in a position where it is saying that section 44 does not confer jurisdiction on the County Court untrammelled by the vexatious litigant order made by the Supreme Court.
  Significantly, the vexatious litigant is not deprived of the right to bring proceedings.

单词	vexatious
释义	Definition of vexatious in English: vexatious adjective vɛkˈseɪʃəsvɛkˈseɪʃəs 1Causing or tending to cause annoyance, frustration, or worry. the vexatious questions posed by software copyrights Example sentencesExamples This was a very vexatious issue in the first place and the way it was constructed caused a lot of angst. How did her Government's decision to amend the Resource Management Act 1991 last year by removing the Environment Court's power to grant security for costs help reduce the problem of frivolous and vexatious objectors? This week, Mr Dhillon wrote to our letters page to say he denied all the allegations in their entirety, claiming that he was being ‘used as a scapegoat in political wranglings arising from spurious and vexatious allegations’. Mr Kenzler said: ‘It is good to be exonerated from vexatious and childish allegations.’ I question how vexatious accusations will be dealt with under this legislation. Scott is now under intense pressure to leave the club, after a series of inflammatory and vexatious statements about supporters, players, the press, the local council and the football authorities. If that be the case, then Monica is well within her right to fetter her freedom of speech but I am not prepared to follow suit, provided that my utterances are not frivolous or vexatious and always made in the best interest of the people. In keeping with today's litigious mood, more businesses are prepared to use the regulatory machinery to pursue their business interests against competitors, sometimes with vexatious claims. The big financial question, the one about The Sun story alleging vexatious contract negotiations, could wait no longer. This vexatious problem was resolved, incompletely, by civil war and secession. This coin, too, was designed to deal with the question of foreign currency circulating in the state - indeed, it represents one of the earliest attempts to solve that vexatious problem. On the issue of vexatious requests Ms O'Reilly said: ‘There is no empirical evidence to show they are there on a wide scale.’ But what Herbert proposes is no mere flight from awkward questions and a vexatious world. Dance numbers will also create awareness on some of the vexatious problems that the world is now facing. On another issue that is causing us quite a lot of vexatious worry has been the need to repeatedly restate the same things over and over. Unfair dismissal laws were only introduced in 1993 and have had a number of undesirable effects in discouraging job creation and encouraging frivolous and vexatious claims. Meanwhile, true to form the National party is saying that the case is vexatious and ‘an absurd waste of time and taxpayer money’. There are a number of things happening that seem to be vexatious and uncontrollable. Obviously society should have no truck with vexatious or spurious claims, but when people suffer damage to their lives or to their careers it is only equitable that they should be awarded adequate compensation. ‘This is yet another vexatious regulation, increasing the ‘pariah’ status of people who smoke, consigning them ever deeper into the social dustbin.’ Synonyms annoying, vexing, irritating, irksome, displeasing, infuriating, maddening, exasperating, provoking, galling, rankling, grating, jarring, harassing, harrying, bothersome, tiresome, troublesome, niggling upsetting, perturbing, worrying, worrisome, concerning, trying, taxing, distressing, traumatic, unsettling, unpleasant difficult, awkward, problematic, inconvenient, lamentable, deplorable informal aggravating 1.1Law Denoting an action or the bringer of an action that is brought without sufficient grounds for winning, purely to cause annoyance to the defendant. a frivolous or vexatious litigant Example sentencesExamples No man, let alone a vexatious litigant, has a vested right to bring or continue proceedings which are an abuse of the process of the court. The Commonwealth is in a position where it is saying that section 44 does not confer jurisdiction on the County Court untrammelled by the vexatious litigant order made by the Supreme Court. It seems that if such a defence fails, the vexatious litigant does require permission to institute appellate proceedings. Access to the courts can be and is limited by statute, for example by Section 42 of the Supreme Court Act 1981, which requires a vexatious litigant to obtain the permission of a high court judge to begin proceedings. Significantly, the vexatious litigant is not deprived of the right to bring proceedings. Derivatives vexatiously adverb vɛkˈseɪʃəslivɛkˈseɪʃəsli Notable among the reasons is the observation that the group is as variable as any group of crustaceans and the style of differentiation of body regions is different, but vexatiously familiar. Example sentencesExamples The young man claims he was brutally beaten in Garda custody, vexatiously charged with assault and taken to court. She said: ‘I can't think of anything more dreadful than someone who is completely innocent and is vexatiously charged, having to live through the kind of publicity that goes with that.’ So we had people with mistaken identity, we've had people vexatiously listed, we've had people who were listed for genuine debts, but the debts aren't severe, but the consequence of being listed on the database is. Where, in the opinion of the tribunal, a party has in bringing or conducting the proceedings acted frivolously, vexatiously, abusively, disruptively or otherwise unreasonably, the tribunal may make - vexatiousness noun This vexatiousness is one instance of the gap between normative and descriptive domains. Example sentencesExamples In the context, the focus of the attention of the Justice is obviously that of the propounded frivolousness or vexatiousness of the process. If that qualification is available in this jurisdiction, it must be in a case where plaintiff shows necessity, because ordinarily unnecessary vexatiousness follows from the multiplicity of suits. If nothing, it's a pretty accurate transcription of tedium and vexatiousness in comics form. She alleges that she is entitled to the vexatiousness penalties because the defendant engaged in improper claims practices. Rhymes Athanasius, audacious, bodacious, cactaceous, capacious, carbonaceous, contumacious, Cretaceous, curvaceous, disputatious, edacious, efficacious, fallacious, farinaceous, flirtatious, foliaceous, fugacious, gracious, hellacious, herbaceous, Ignatius, loquacious, mendacious, mordacious, ostentatious, perspicacious, pertinacious, pugnacious, rapacious, sagacious, salacious, saponaceous, sebaceous, sequacious, setaceous, spacious, tenacious, veracious, vivacious, voracious Definition of vexatious in US English: vexatious adjectivevekˈsāSHəsvɛkˈseɪʃəs 1Causing or tending to cause annoyance, frustration, or worry. the vexatious questions posed by software copyrights Example sentencesExamples Obviously society should have no truck with vexatious or spurious claims, but when people suffer damage to their lives or to their careers it is only equitable that they should be awarded adequate compensation. There are a number of things happening that seem to be vexatious and uncontrollable. The big financial question, the one about The Sun story alleging vexatious contract negotiations, could wait no longer. Meanwhile, true to form the National party is saying that the case is vexatious and ‘an absurd waste of time and taxpayer money’. Scott is now under intense pressure to leave the club, after a series of inflammatory and vexatious statements about supporters, players, the press, the local council and the football authorities. This was a very vexatious issue in the first place and the way it was constructed caused a lot of angst. Dance numbers will also create awareness on some of the vexatious problems that the world is now facing. In keeping with today's litigious mood, more businesses are prepared to use the regulatory machinery to pursue their business interests against competitors, sometimes with vexatious claims. This week, Mr Dhillon wrote to our letters page to say he denied all the allegations in their entirety, claiming that he was being ‘used as a scapegoat in political wranglings arising from spurious and vexatious allegations’. If that be the case, then Monica is well within her right to fetter her freedom of speech but I am not prepared to follow suit, provided that my utterances are not frivolous or vexatious and always made in the best interest of the people. On another issue that is causing us quite a lot of vexatious worry has been the need to repeatedly restate the same things over and over. This coin, too, was designed to deal with the question of foreign currency circulating in the state - indeed, it represents one of the earliest attempts to solve that vexatious problem. On the issue of vexatious requests Ms O'Reilly said: ‘There is no empirical evidence to show they are there on a wide scale.’ Mr Kenzler said: ‘It is good to be exonerated from vexatious and childish allegations.’ But what Herbert proposes is no mere flight from awkward questions and a vexatious world. I question how vexatious accusations will be dealt with under this legislation. ‘This is yet another vexatious regulation, increasing the ‘pariah’ status of people who smoke, consigning them ever deeper into the social dustbin.’ This vexatious problem was resolved, incompletely, by civil war and secession. How did her Government's decision to amend the Resource Management Act 1991 last year by removing the Environment Court's power to grant security for costs help reduce the problem of frivolous and vexatious objectors? Unfair dismissal laws were only introduced in 1993 and have had a number of undesirable effects in discouraging job creation and encouraging frivolous and vexatious claims. Synonyms annoying, vexing, irritating, irksome, displeasing, infuriating, maddening, exasperating, provoking, galling, rankling, grating, jarring, harassing, harrying, bothersome, tiresome, troublesome, niggling 1.1Law Denoting an action or the bringer of an action that is brought without sufficient grounds for winning, purely to cause annoyance to the defendant. Example sentencesExamples No man, let alone a vexatious litigant, has a vested right to bring or continue proceedings which are an abuse of the process of the court. It seems that if such a defence fails, the vexatious litigant does require permission to institute appellate proceedings. Access to the courts can be and is limited by statute, for example by Section 42 of the Supreme Court Act 1981, which requires a vexatious litigant to obtain the permission of a high court judge to begin proceedings. The Commonwealth is in a position where it is saying that section 44 does not confer jurisdiction on the County Court untrammelled by the vexatious litigant order made by the Supreme Court. Significantly, the vexatious litigant is not deprived of the right to bring proceedings.
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