Vexatious
[vek'seɪʃəs] or [vɛk'seʃəs]
Definition
(a.) Causing vexation; agitating; afflictive; annoying; as, a vexatious controversy; a vexatious neighbor.
(a.) Full or vexation, trouble, or disquiet; disturbed.
Checker: Mitchell
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Troublesome, irritating, provoking, annoying, harassing, painful, distressing.
Edited by Enrico
Examples
- A thousand vexatious thoughts would recur. Jane Austen. Emma.
- Is not this most vexatious, Knightley? Jane Austen. Emma.
- But this Ladislaw--there again is a vexatious business, said Sir James. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- To be neglected before one's time must be very vexatious; but it was entirely the mother's fault. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- A vexatious (do you hear, sir? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Whether advocates and orators had liberty to plead in causes manifestly known to be unjust, vexatious, or oppressive? Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- The petition was declared to be scandalous and vexatious, and the prayer of it refused. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- A vexatious--' 'No you weren't,' said Pa. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- On this occasion we had no vexatious delays, and in about three days Pittsburg was reached. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- I have other complaints to make upon this vexatious occasion; but I forbear troubling myself or you any further. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
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