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What does vexatious mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word vexatious? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Causing vexation or annoyance; teasing; troublesome.
  2. (archaic) Full of trouble or disquiet
  3. (law, of an action) Commenced for the purpose of giving trouble, without due cause.
  4. (law, of a party or entity) In the habit of starting vexatious litigation and therefore liable to have restraints placed on one's ability to access the courts.
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But what Herbert proposes is no mere flight from awkward questions and a vexatious world.
This was a very vexatious issue in the first place and the way it was constructed caused a lot of angst.
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.
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 big financial question, the one about The Sun story alleging vexatious contract negotiations, could wait no longer.
There are a number of things happening that seem to be vexatious and uncontrollable.

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