vexatious

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A Cabinet Office source said: "The fact that selective excerpts are now being resurfaced, almost a decade on, to substantiate vexatious anonymous briefings from disgruntled individuals is frankly unconscionable."

From BBC • Feb. 17, 2026

Hit-Boy’s first musical body of work to arrive on the heels of this extended vexatious period is his forthcoming album, naturally titled “Software Update.”

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 15, 2025

What if the judiciary treated the federal government itself as a vexatious litigant?

From Salon • Feb. 15, 2025

“So was this a deliberate attempt to cover up those allegations under the guise of dealing with so-called vexatious claims? It’s a very serious question.”

From BBC • Sep. 23, 2024

Eratosthenes, in a lost work quoted by the Roman-era geographer Strabo, wrote that of the kingdom of the pharaohs “there was a common saying: ‘The way to Egypt is long and vexatious.’..

From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro