vexatious
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A Cabinet Office source said: "The fact that selective excerpts are now being resurfaced, almost a decade on, to substantiate vexatious anonymous briefings from disgruntled individuals is frankly unconscionable."
From BBC • Feb. 17, 2026
It concluded that compliance and control were often prioritised above pupil wellbeing, and said concerns raised by parents or staff were sometimes dismissed as "vexatious".
From BBC • Dec. 9, 2025
Hit-Boy’s first musical body of work to arrive on the heels of this extended vexatious period is his forthcoming album, naturally titled “Software Update.”
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 15, 2025
What if the judiciary treated the federal government itself as a vexatious litigant?
From Salon • Feb. 15, 2025
His teeth were winnowed away by a vexatious Grisha, and now he can eat only pudding.”
From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo
Vocabulary lists containing vexatious
"Democracy in America, Vol. 1" by Alexis de Tocqueville, Introduction–Chapter 5
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"Wuthering Heights" by Emily Bronte, Chapters 1–5
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Murder on the Orient Express
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