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# vexatious

adjective (more vexatious, most vexatious)

«vexatious» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Vexatious means annoying and troublesome, causing worry or bother again and again. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vexatious/#m1)
2. (formal) In law, a vexatious case is one brought only to annoy someone. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vexatious/#m2)

### In the lessons

in stories a vexatious person keeps making trouble for others; in school a vexatious question keeps causing a fuss

### Examples

- The vexatious fly kept buzzing at my ear. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vexatious/#x1)
- Tom's vexatious questions made the teacher sigh. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vexatious/#x2)
- The master punished Edmund for his vexatious habit of arguing. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vexatious/#x3)

### Note

nothing for maths

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «vexatious» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vexatious/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«vexatious» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/vexatious.html) on Mova free.