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What does vexatious mean?

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Adjective
  1. Causing vexation or annoyance; teasing; troublesome.
  2. (archaic) Full of trouble or disquiet
  3. (law, of an action) Commenced for the purpose of giving trouble, without due cause.
  4. (law, of a party or entity) In the habit of starting vexatious litigation and therefore liable to have restraints placed on one's ability to access the courts.
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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.
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.
Dance numbers will also create awareness on some of the vexatious problems that the world is now facing.
It seems that if such a defence fails, the vexatious litigant does require permission to institute appellate proceedings.
But what Herbert proposes is no mere flight from awkward questions and a vexatious world.
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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