Adjective : a vexatious situation.    From Dictionary.com. 

These may be termed vexatious; still the death of the king, by saving them from the consequences his ambition would naturally have entailed on them, may be reckoned a blessing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letters written during a short residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark] Reference

This was a "vexatious" outcome, according to Sebastian Guistinian.    From Wordnik.com.  [From Heads of Household to Heads of State: The Preaccession Households of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, 1516-1558] Reference

But its investigation also rejected Merryday's finding that the decision to charge the Aisenbergs had been "vexatious" or undertaken in "bad faith.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Federal prosecutors likely to keep jobs after cases collapse] Reference

In question is the "vexatious" claims that the RIAAs legal tactics is a "sham".    From Wordnik.com.  [Slashdot: Your Rights Online] Reference

Zhou's "vexatious" behavior intensified, the lawsuit claims, when she told state mediator.    From Wordnik.com.  [Columnist: Keith Groller] Reference

The district sued Zhou in 2009 alleging she exhibited "vexatious" behavior by displaying a.    From Wordnik.com.  [Columnist: Keith Groller] Reference

The amended bill does not include the "vexatious" language, but still is problematic, Kato said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Starbulletin Headlines] Reference

It appears that someone in the RIAA's legal team discovered the word "vexatious" lately and now likes to use it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Techdirt] Reference

The RIAA must surely be shocked, shocked at the very thought that there could be "vexatious" tactics and proceedings in American courts.    From Wordnik.com.  [EXCESS COPYRIGHT] Reference

NSW Premier Kristina Keneally denies claims she intimidated a whistleblower by describing his corruption complaint against a Labor MP as "vexatious".    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest News - Yahoo!7 News] Reference

As you may or may not know, HI Senator Espero introduced legislation to ban what an agency deems as a "vexatious" requestor from making requests for 2 years.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest Articles] Reference

The majority of cases of prolonged detention were the fault of parents making "vexatious" legal claims and using judicial review to delay deportation, he said.    From Wordnik.com.  [BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition] Reference

"vexatious" legal claims and using judicial review to delay deportation.    From Wordnik.com.  [EducationNews.org] Reference

"vexatious" but businesses can still be left with legal bills of about £9,000 because Berry ignores orders to pay costs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Top stories from Times Online] Reference

Why, I again ask you, this string of vexatious impressions?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

On this occasion we had no vexatious delays, and in about three days.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference

As a matter of fact Zeppelin solved this vexatious problem unconsciously.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War] Reference

Hence the necessity of red tape, and its delays and vexatious inconveniences.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letters from Port Royal Written at the Time of the Civil War (1862-1868)] Reference

Secqville, as may be supposed, offered no vexatious resistance to her request.    From Wordnik.com.  [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851] Reference

Tipping is one of the most vexatious petty problems with which a traveler is confronted.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of Business Etiquette] Reference

At Camp Supply the turn out was swift, but this time it has been long drawn out and most vexatious.    From Wordnik.com.  [Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888] Reference

By such a plan of appealing, lawsuits would be rendered exceedingly expensive, and exceedingly vexatious.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1] Reference

If we are to judge from a conversation with Montholon, those complaints were of the most vexatious order.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847] Reference

And then, to make my shortcomings the more vexatious, Faye will be simply fine all the time, in his brand new uniform!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888] Reference

Wrap this gift up in a defined time ( "I will use effort to be free of vexatious thoughts for two hours this evening.").    From Wordnik.com.  [Srinivasan Pillay: Brain-Based Strategies for Harnessing Your Power] Reference

OUR first Christmas on the frontier was ever so pleasant, but it certainly was most vexatious not to have that box from home.    From Wordnik.com.  [Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888] Reference

The restrictions on visitors were, however, vexatious, people of all classes being hurried through the rooms at a tremendous speed -- vide.    From Wordnik.com.  [Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy.] Reference

With my mathematical studies, too, I made equal progress, in spite of my original dislike to friend Euclid and his vexatious propositions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Crown and Anchor Under the Pen'ant] Reference

Almost from the start they met with most vexatious delays which gave an opportunity for the Spanish on shore to send ahead news of their coming.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8] Reference

English prejudices, that really -- dear me, how vexatious that it should never once have occurred to me that Mr. Hazeldean had a voice in the matter!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851] Reference

The French had been obtrusive and vexatious guests; but their worst trespasses had been mercy and tenderness, to the daily outrage of the new-comers.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864] Reference

Aladdin's quest of old the search has been long and wearisome and has led me a tedious road through many vexatious disappointments, but at last I have found the lamp!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Northern Nut Growers Association, Report of the Proceedings at the Fourth Annual Meeting Washington D.C. November 18 and 19, 1913] Reference

The goods and parcels traffic also furnishes a wide field for overcharge, and also of vexatious delay when the stimulus of a commission on the transaction is lacking.    From Wordnik.com.  [India and the Indians] Reference

It had ceased to govern, to render any service in return for privileges, exemptions, and exactions so odious, vexatious, and oppressive that no service could atone for them.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886] Reference

The small addition contributed to the rich revenue by this useless official "permit," appears the sole reason for retaining it, now that vexatious restrictions are withdrawn.    From Wordnik.com.  [Through the Malay Archipelago] Reference

Kentuckian, Johnny respected and admired them all the more on account of these varied accomplishments, and never troubled the narrator with any vexatious demand for explanations.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Island Home] Reference