Adjective : a vexatious situation. From Dictionary.com.
It sometimes fell vexatiously on the intellectuals. From Wordnik.com. [Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: Part V] Reference
Yet the vexatiously named “literary short story” is scarcely a separable species. From Wordnik.com. [“Experimental writing”] Reference
The directorate welcomed a finding by Hussein that it did not act negligently or vexatiously. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Persons and Things do turn up so vexatiously in this life, and will in a manner insist on being noticed. From Wordnik.com. [The Moonstone] Reference
The last thing in the world I would want is to be pursued so vexatiously myself over such a trivial matter. From Wordnik.com. [Is the Labour Blogosphere About to Take Off?] Reference
My apartment, which was built of logs, was vexatiously small, with no way of letting in light, except by the door. From Wordnik.com. [The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52] Reference
My best friends find this very vexing, but I assure them as I do you that they/you would find my incessant existential crises vexatiously tedious. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-10-01] Reference
Maillot's eagerness and impatience were so intense that he had been unable to restrain himself when the old gentleman lapsed most vexatiously into a revery. From Wordnik.com. [The Paternoster Ruby] Reference
And yet the notion of his daughter living in lodgings in a strange town -- her only companion a young girl who had never been in the place before -- was vexatiously absurd. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 33, December, 1873] Reference
In confidence she consults it; saying vexatiously. From Wordnik.com. [The Death Shot A Story Retold] Reference
Burgsdorf fishing pond -- don't be so vexatiously slow. From Wordnik.com. [The Northern Light] Reference
There were moments when she made him feel vexatiously young. From Wordnik.com. [Far to Seek A Romance of England and India] Reference
I told you I was vexatiously detained, almost at your gates. From Wordnik.com. [The Line of Love Dizain des Mariages] Reference
"Then we are in for a long delay," exclaimed Ned vexatiously. From Wordnik.com. [Canoe Boys and Campfires Adventures on Winding Waters] Reference
But in her mind the phrase repeated itself vexatiously: "your man.". From Wordnik.com. [The Puritans] Reference
Baseball, I am sometimes reminded, is vexatiously difficult to play. From Wordnik.com. [Independent Weekly] Reference
That portion was vexatiously hidden by an intervening clump of bushes. From Wordnik.com. [The Red Man's Revenge A Tale of The Red River Flood] Reference
Biography is by turns mischievously communicative and vexatiously silent. From Wordnik.com. [A Book About Lawyers] Reference
Soon as seeing him, they upon the ridge recognise the man thus vexatiously engaged. From Wordnik.com. [The Lone Ranche] Reference
The plan thus vexatiously interrupted was, however, ultimately carried into effect. From Wordnik.com. [Post Haste] Reference
My eyes were extremely keen and powerful, though they were vexatiously near-sighted. From Wordnik.com. [Father and Son: a study of two temperaments] Reference
Something she had wished to do, something of high moment, was vexatiously postponed. From Wordnik.com. [In the Year of Jubilee] Reference
Dear Napier, -- Your letter about my review of Mackintosh miscarried, vexatiously enough. From Wordnik.com. [Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay Volume 1] Reference
His voice had deserted him, and his ideas had vexatiously scattered like frightened wild geese. From Wordnik.com. [The Puritans] Reference
"Existence in itself is vexatiously wearisome at times -- at least to feeble persons, like myself.". From Wordnik.com. [The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance] Reference
Here, and all over the continent, the passport system is as strictly and vexatiously enforced as ever. From Wordnik.com. [Letters of a Traveller Notes of Things Seen in Europe and America] Reference
Persons and Things do turn up so vexatiously in this life, and will in a manner insist on being noticed. From Wordnik.com. [The Moonstone] Reference
Grissom Machinery and its lawyers "acted willfully in bad faith, vexatiously, wantonly, and for oppressive reasons.". From Wordnik.com. [Law.com - Newswire]
Presently Mr. Flemyng himself appeared, clamorous for cigars and drink, but mighty discreet and vexatiously reticent. From Wordnik.com. [Half a Hero A Novel] Reference
Indeed, at the different places at which they stopped, they were vexatiously delayed on various pretexts by the natives. From Wordnik.com. [Great African Travellers From Mungo Park to Livingstone and Stanley] Reference
And the sense of my imprudence broke vexatiously upon me when the old man came and stood between me and his daughter's portraits. From Wordnik.com. [Erema — My Father's Sin] Reference
Gold said Cronin and Hoffman, along with Drug Enforcement Administration agent Christopher Wells, "acted vexatiously and in bad faith.". From Wordnik.com. [Law.com - Newswire] Reference
Early in 1896 the railway was opened from Fontesvilla to Beira, so that the tedious and vexatiously uncertain voyage up or down the Pungwe. From Wordnik.com. [Impressions of South Africa] Reference
All capacity for work had been dispelled by that vexatiously engaging son of his, with his heart in India and his head among the stars. From Wordnik.com. [Far to Seek A Romance of England and India] Reference
Old B's and little B's names and addresses to be available to defendants or vexatiously accused together with full written details and evidence. From Wordnik.com. [legitgov] Reference
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