Explore Vexatious through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like annoying or vexing. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Vexatious in a sentence
Vexatious meaning
- Causing vexation or annoyance; teasing; troublesome.
- Full of trouble or disquiet
- Commenced for the purpose of giving trouble, without due cause.
Synonyms of Vexatious
Using Vexatious
- The main meaning on this page is: Causing vexation or annoyance; teasing; troublesome. | Full of trouble or disquiet | Commenced for the purpose of giving trouble, without due cause.
- Useful related words include: annoying, vexing, teasing, plaguey.
- In the example corpus, vexatious often appears in combinations such as: vexatious litigant, vexatious litigants, be vexatious.
Context around Vexatious
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 8 middle, 8 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Vexatious
- In this selection, "vexatious" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, extant, frivolous, persistent, litigants, litigant and issues stand out and add context to how "vexatious" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a habitually vexatious litigant and and a vexatious litigant must. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "vexatious" sits close to words such as abstention, acadiana and actuarial, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with vexatious
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The judge held that the request was frivolous, vexatious, unwarranted and mischievous. (12 words)
In court papers, Kamushinda says the allegations against him are “clearly scandalous, vexatious and irrelevant”. (15 words)
Darbishire said the only rational conclusion was that the case was politically motivated and therefore vexatious. (16 words)
The Judiciary are making up the law as they go along and ignoring the fact that under our equal rights legislation every vote has equal value and that the rich, who can fund vexatious Court Action are getting preferential treatment from the Courts. (43 words)
He went on to slam the allegations of statutory misconduct, conflict of interest and illegal fee arrangements in the SIU’s findings of his involvement with the liquidations of Sebal/Lechwe Lodge, as “dishonest and vexatious”. (36 words)
As the courts's decisions have shown it, the authority to declare a litigant as vexatious is directly tributary to the power conferred by section 46. Cases illustrating the application of section 46 are numerous. (35 words)
Example sentences (20)
In 2010 the Rann government acted to strengthen the ability of the courts to act against vexatious litigants by "increasing the range of courts and tribunals that can declare people as vexatious".
Dr Noronha-Barrett said the university did not have to investigate further after they deemed the disclosure to be vexatious.
The divisions trailing the elections are just manifestations of the failure of the leadership to find enduring resolution to extant vexatious issues of our federal order.
B.C. Supreme Court registrar Meg Gaily ruled May 27 Arbabi pay McLelland after Arbabi launched what was later deemed by a judge to be a vexatious and frivolous lawsuit against McLelland.
Finance chief Ed Turner added he thought need for the policy was "regrettable" but that "vexatious contact to councillors can be very distressing".
He went on to slam the allegations of statutory misconduct, conflict of interest and illegal fee arrangements in the SIU’s findings of his involvement with the liquidations of Sebal/Lechwe Lodge, as “dishonest and vexatious”.
Such vexatious legal lawsuits are the core activity of most self-appointed animal rights and green left lobby groups.
The judge held that the request was frivolous, vexatious, unwarranted and mischievous.
Despite the vexatious ethnic question, it has a fairly large section of minorities who have recorded remarkable progress in the fields of education, public affairs, economy, art, culture and sport.
And if the disciplinary hearing finds the charges baseless there are no consequences for the vexatious accuser.
But in saying this, the persistent, vexatious concerns regarding the global growth outlook has continued to abate.
Darbishire said the only rational conclusion was that the case was politically motivated and therefore vexatious.
The Judiciary are making up the law as they go along and ignoring the fact that under our equal rights legislation every vote has equal value and that the rich, who can fund vexatious Court Action are getting preferential treatment from the Courts.
The law is fraudulent, vexatious and very insulting to this democratic era to be very frank.
A 2008 Inquiry into Vexatious Litigants in Victoria observed that “the right of people to go to court to seek redress is a key feature of democratic societies governed by the rule of law”.
In court papers, Kamushinda says the allegations against him are “clearly scandalous, vexatious and irrelevant”.
After the act was passed, he became the first person to be declared a habitually vexatious litigant and barred from future litigation without judicial permission.
As the courts's decisions have shown it, the authority to declare a litigant as vexatious is directly tributary to the power conferred by section 46. Cases illustrating the application of section 46 are numerous.
A vexatious litigant must then apply to a High Court Judge for leave to commence any action.
Because lawyers could be disbarred for participating in this abuse of the legal process, vexatious litigants are often unable to retain legal counsel, and such litigants therefore represent themselves in court.
Common combinations with vexatious
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- vexatious litigant 6×
- vexatious litigants 5×
- be vexatious 4×
- as vexatious 3×
- the vexatious 3×
- vexatious and 3×
- vexatious litigation 3×
- and vexatious 2×
- been vexatious 2×
- declared vexatious 2×