vexatious

[Eng. vex; -atious.] 1. Causing vexation, annoyance, irritation, trouble, worry, or the like; annoying, teasing, worrying, troublesome, vexing. "His second wife's vexatious carriage." -Camden: Hist. of Queen Elizabeth (an. 1591). 2. Distre ing, hara ing, afflictive. "Consider him maintaining his usurped title by veza tious wars against the kings of Judah."- South . 3. Full of troubles, disquiet, or uneasine ; uneasy, worried. "He leads a vexatious life, who in his noblest actions is so gored with scruples that he dares not make a step without the authority of another."-Digby. Frivolous and vexations : Applied to a statement or objection made without any grounds. vexatious-suit, s . Law : A suit commenced for the purpose of caus" ing trouble, or without cause. věx-ā-tious-ly, adv. [Eng. vexatious; -ly.] In a vexatious manner; so as to cause vexation, trouble, or worry. "Quarantine had been rigidly and vexatiously exercised."-London Daily Chronicle.