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Vexatiously

Vexatious \Vex*a"tious\, a. [See Vexation.]

  1. Causing vexation; agitating; afflictive; annoying; as, a vexatious controversy; a vexatious neighbor. ``Continual vexatious wars.''
    --South.

  2. Full or vexation, trouble, or disquiet; disturbed.

    He leads a vexatious life.
    --Sir K. Digby.

    Vexatious suit (Law), a suit commenced for the purpose of giving trouble, or without cause. [1913 Webster] -- Vex*a"tious*ly, adv. -- Vex*a"tious*ness, n.

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vexatiously

adv. In a vexatious manner; so as to give annoyance.

Usage examples of "vexatiously".

Individuals now cycled at different times from their peers, but allomorphism was still vexatiously inconvenient.

The writer's discursiveness is too often and too vexatiously felt by the reader to permit of the survival of any sense of theorematic unity in his mind.