vexatious

• When told that he could have used a reply to dismiss Lemire's complaint against Warman as vexatious, and Steacy admitted that he could have. —  Covenant Zone
• This was vexatious, as they would probably arrive at the spiked field-pieces and divine the truth long before the ambush in the defile would be emboldened by the silence to creep down and see what had happened, and Gerrard hurried his men on. —  The Path to Honour
• Elsewhere in the volume is an instructive paper on "The Neutrality of Sweden" (valuable but vexatious, as are all the indictments of our insular apathy in the matter of influencing foreign opinion), and two or three interesting studies of French life and letters under the conditions of war. —  Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, May 10, 1916
• Of course it is vexatious, and seems like harassing the men for nothing; but it has its good side, for it proves how quickly we can man our defences. —  Mass' George A Boy's Adventures in the Old Savannah
• This was most vexatious, and it may have been in some degree disheartening; but it did not cause the slightest relaxation of efforts, and, as the result proved, was but little in the way of the dead game_, pluck and resolutions of Fuller and Murphy, who left the engine and again put out on foot alone_! —  Daring and Suffering: A History of the Great Railroad Adventure

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