How To Use Vexatious In A Sentence
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a vexatious child
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The bramble is a worthless plant, not to be numbered among the trees, useless and fruitless, nay, hurtful and vexatious, scratching and tearing, and doing mischief; it began with the curse, and its end is to be burned.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume II (Joshua to Esther)
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Dance numbers will also create awareness on some of the vexatious problems that the world is now facing.
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While they will rise up against a vexatious impost, they crouch before a system of which the impost is the smallest evil.
The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VI (of X)—Great Britain and Ireland IV
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On the issue of vexatious requests Ms O'Reilly said: ‘There is no empirical evidence to show they are there on a wide scale.’
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If that be the case, then Monica is well within her right to fetter her freedom of speech but I am not prepared to follow suit, provided that my utterances are not frivolous or vexatious and always made in the best interest of the people.
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Obviously society should have no truck with vexatious or spurious claims, but when people suffer damage to their lives or to their careers it is only equitable that they should be awarded adequate compensation.
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A vexatious variant of the crossword is the cryptic crossword - just reading the clues to a cryptic crossword is enough to reduce whole swathes of the population to weeping and gibbering.
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“Silence, Campo-Basso,” said the Duke, “and be assured you serve a prince. who knows your worth too well to exchange it for the untried and untrustful services of those, whom we have only known as vexatious and malignant neighbors.”
Anne of Geierstein
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he got an injunction against vexatious litigation by his enemies
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The UK will temporarily opt out of international human rights law when it goes to war, to free soldiers from vexatious litigation.
Times, Sunday Times
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There are a number of things happening that seem to be vexatious and uncontrollable.
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Access to the courts can be and is limited by statute, for example by Section 42 of the Supreme Court Act 1981, which requires a vexatious litigant to obtain the permission of a high court judge to begin proceedings.
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Perion's trial, condemnation, and so on, had consumed the better part of an hour, on account of the drunkenness of one of the Inquisitors, who had vexatiously impeded these formalities by singing love-songs; but in the end it had been salutarily arranged that the Comte de la Forêt be torn apart by four horses upon the St. Richard's day ensuing.
Domnei A Comedy of Woman-Worship
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(They probably know a thing or two about taming snakes in the grass, not to mention argumentative asps and vexatious vipers, if you ask them nicely).
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The one solace of this vexatious upstir was the application of Artemas Ward for relief from command in Massachusetts.
Washington
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In keeping with today's litigious mood, more businesses are prepared to use the regulatory machinery to pursue their business interests against competitors, sometimes with vexatious claims.
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No man, let alone a vexatious litigant, has a vested right to bring or continue proceedings which are an abuse of the process of the court.
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We will repay them with gratitude and put an end to the industry of vexatious claims that has pursued those who served in previous conflicts.
The Sun
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Its claims are not frivolous or vexatious and definitely present a serious case to be tried.
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To German intelligence, Major de Coverley was a vexatious enigma.
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The vexatious question of so-called legation asylum for offenders against the state and its laws was presented anew in Chile by the unauthorized action of the late United States minister in receiving into his official residence two persons who had just failed in an attempt at revolution and against whom criminal charges were pending growing out of a former abortive disturbance.
A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 8, part 2: Grover Cleveland
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This vexatious problem was resolved, incompletely, by civil war and secession.
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On another issue that is causing us quite a lot of vexatious worry has been the need to repeatedly restate the same things over and over.
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I now have to record a small but at the time vexatious military episode.
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It was very vexatious; but still three lions were not a bad bag for one gun before dinner.
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Scott is now under intense pressure to leave the club, after a series of inflammatory and vexatious statements about supporters, players, the press, the local council and the football authorities.
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This coin, too, was designed to deal with the question of foreign currency circulating in the state - indeed, it represents one of the earliest attempts to solve that vexatious problem.
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But what we need to take action on is vexatious claims.
The Sun
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Mr Kenzler said: ‘It is good to be exonerated from vexatious and childish allegations.’
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This week, Mr Dhillon wrote to our letters page to say he denied all the allegations in their entirety, claiming that he was being ‘used as a scapegoat in political wranglings arising from spurious and vexatious allegations’.
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Meanwhile, true to form the National party is saying that the case is vexatious and ‘an absurd waste of time and taxpayer money’.
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In spite of that she had it announced and advertised, ... and in the end there only came of it a vexatious mancando, perdendosi!
Letters
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The sense of his insufficiency was the more vexatious to Mowbray, as he was aware he would find sharp critics in the ladies, and particularly in his constant rival, Lady Penelope Penfeather.
Saint Ronan's Well
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This was a very vexatious issue in the first place and the way it was constructed caused a lot of angst.
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How did her Government's decision to amend the Resource Management Act 1991 last year by removing the Environment Court's power to grant security for costs help reduce the problem of frivolous and vexatious objectors?
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But what Herbert proposes is no mere flight from awkward questions and a vexatious world.
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Significantly, the vexatious litigant is not deprived of the right to bring proceedings.
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He waited and fretted, and spent a vexatious winter of abstinence.
MEDALON
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The exact particulars of the similarity never came to light, but apparently the lady had, in a fit of high-minded inadvertence, had gone through the ceremony of marriage with, one quotes the unpublished discourse of Mr. Butteridge — “a white-livered skunk,” and this zoological aberration did in some legal and vexatious manner mar her social happines.
The War in the Air
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A law with respect to vexatious litigants may be a law designed to promote access to the courts.
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'My health seems in general to improve; but I have been troubled for many weeks with a vexatious catarrh, which is sometimes sufficiently distressful.
Life Of Johnson
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The Commonwealth is in a position where it is saying that section 44 does not confer jurisdiction on the County Court untrammelled by the vexatious litigant order made by the Supreme Court.
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In spite of that she had it announced and advertised, ... and in the end there only came of it a vexatious mancando, perdendosi!
Letters
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Unfair dismissal laws were only introduced in 1993 and have had a number of undesirable effects in discouraging job creation and encouraging frivolous and vexatious claims.
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I question how vexatious accusations will be dealt with under this legislation.
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It seems that if such a defence fails, the vexatious litigant does require permission to institute appellate proceedings.
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And this is not to be understood barely of oppression managed by open and downright defiance; but by any other sinister way whatsoever, as the overbearing another's right by the interest and interposal of great persons, by vexatious suits and violence cloaked with the formalities of a court and the name of law.
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. VII.
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The big financial question, the one about The Sun story alleging vexatious contract negotiations, could wait no longer.
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‘This is yet another vexatious regulation, increasing the ‘pariah’ status of people who smoke, consigning them ever deeper into the social dustbin.’
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It seems that if such a defence fails, the vexatious litigant does require permission to institute appellate proceedings.