How to Use vexatious in a Sentence

vexatious

adjective

• Frontiers have long been a vexatious subject around here.
  — Salman Rushdie, The New Yorker, 16 Nov. 2020
• The Republican tax bill passed by the House would eliminate this vexatious tax, as would the original draft of the Senate version.
  — Kathleen Pender, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 Dec. 2017
• However, Shivers has been known to the state of California as a vexatious litigant since 2008.
  — Kathleen Joyce, Fox News, 29 May 2018
• Where commuters might see vexatious gridlock, of course, Massell sees glorious progress.
  — Jennifer Brett, ajc, 5 Mar. 2020
• The either/or requirement makes interpreting the results feel like one of those vexatious story problems from junior high math.
  — Eric Zorn, chicagotribune.com, 9 Oct. 2020
• Madeira law director Brian Fox said the city is deciding whether to appeal the vexatious litigator ruling.
  — Jeanne Houck, The Enquirer, 24 Sep. 2021
• However, since ancient times, people have struggled mightily with the vexatious question of how to dispose of all the garbage generated by humans.
  — Teresa Keegan, The Denver Post, 11 Mar. 2017
• There are a host of provisions within American law designed to prevent precisely this sort of vexatious litigation, and yet almost none of them seemed to have fired properly in this case.
  — The Editors, National Review, 19 Mar. 2021
• Donald has used this type of vexatious litigation to intimidate, harass and bully for years!
  — Paula Reid, CNN, 28 Sep. 2021
• There was also a vexatious media that was dominated by critical columnists like the cerebral Walter Lippmann and the gossip-friendly Drew Pearson.
  — Frank Gannon, WSJ, 22 Mar. 2022
• Things fell into place for Hughes' vexatious defense, specifically against Taft standout freshman forward Rayvon Griffith, who was met with formidable double teams in the paint throughout the night, resulting in a season-low three points.
  — Shelby Dermer, Cincinnati.com, 24 Jan. 2020
• Colin Robinson, who survives by draining others of their energy with his vexatious personality, is often the bane of the other vampires’ existence.
  — Tyler Coates, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Aug. 2022
• The potential roles that his daughter Ivanka Trump and her husband, Jared Kushner, may play in the administration are particularly vexatious.
  — Eric Lipton and Maggie Haberman, New York Times, 24 Dec. 2016
• His idea of corporate good governance left no place for vexatious Quakers: Friends in New Amsterdam were liable to expulsion, imprisonment, and whipping.
  — Michael Knox Beran, National Review, 7 Nov. 2019
• Rail startups also accuse various national champions of hogging the best rail slots, of engaging in predatory pricing and of pursuing vexatious litigation against them to push them out of the market.
  — The Economist, 28 June 2018
• However, one of our most common and vexatious emotional triggers is interruptions, and technology is a primary culprit in this regard.
  — Philip Chard, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5 Jan. 2018
• The legal profession doesn’t serve the public’s best interest by engaging in vexatious litigation when our economy is most vulnerable.
  — WSJ, 14 May 2020
• Democracies must also provide more protection for journalists and researchers working to uncover Russian corruption within our societies, especially by ending oligarchs’ prolific use of vexatious lawsuits to deter and impoverish opponents.
  — Nate Sibley, National Review, 23 Feb. 2022

Last Updated: 22 Oct 2024