0 difficult to deal with and causing a lot of anger, worry, or argument:
1 vexatious legal complaints are not serious but are annoying to deal with:
His job is to take on "vexatious problems" and make the government bureaucracy work.
His home, however vexatious, was the source of his greatest art.
He was now in a very vexatious position.
This aggressive legalism is what in England we call "vexatious litigation".
The article provides that a lawyer involved in a "vexatious and frivolous" lawsuit is personally responsible for any fees, costs, and other sanctions imposed.
For them, the incidents of food protest exemplify how such vexatious relations lead to clashes between central governments and the people.
But they could also refer explicitly to exchanges between their superiors and the board of personnel-in particular to the vexatious remark mentioned above.
This variability has made the problem of psychotherapy in multicultural settings particularly vexatious.
