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Vexatious synonyms

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annoying
Causing irritation or annoyance; troublesome; vexatious.
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  1. Causing irritation or annoyance; troublesome; vexatious.
  2. Causing vexation or irritation; troublesome:
  3. Irritating; vexing; bothersome
bothersome
Causing bother; annoying; troublesome; irksome
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  1. Causing bother; annoying; troublesome; irksome
annoying
Causing irritation or annoyance; troublesome; vexatious.
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  1. Causing irritation or annoyance; troublesome; vexatious.
  2. Causing vexation or irritation; troublesome:
  3. Irritating; vexing; bothersome
bothersome
Causing bother; annoying; troublesome; irksome
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  1. Causing bother; annoying; troublesome; irksome
galling
Vexing, humiliating
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  1. Vexing, humiliating
  2. Causing extreme irritation or chagrin; vexing:
  3. Chafing; very annoying; irritating; vexing
irksome
Causing annoyance, weariness, or vexation:
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  1. Causing annoyance, weariness, or vexation:
  2. Disagreeable or troublesome by reason of long continuance or repetition; bothersome; annoying; irritating; wearisome; tedious.
  3. That tends to irk; tiresome or annoying
nettlesome
That nettles, or annoys
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  1. That nettles, or annoys
  2. Causing irritation or distress; vexatious.
plaguy
Vexatious; bothersome.
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  1. Vexatious; bothersome.
  2. Causing annoyance or bother, irritating
  3. (Informal, Dial.) Annoying; vexatious; disagreeable
provoking
Troubling the nerves or peace of mind, as by repeated vexations:
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  1. Troubling the nerves or peace of mind, as by repeated vexations:
  2. That provokes; esp., annoying or vexing
troublesome
Giving trouble or anxiety; vexatious; burdensome; wearisome.
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  1. Giving trouble or anxiety; vexatious; burdensome; wearisome.
  2. Characterized by or causing trouble, irritation, difficulty, distress, inconvenience, etc.
Find another word for vexatious. In this page you can discover 14 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for vexatious, like: annoying, bothersome, irritating, disturbing, annoying, bothersome, galling, irksome, irritating, nettlesome and plaguy.

Sentence Examples

  • He gets a bit vexatious at times.

  • The slavery question presented vexatious difficulties in conducting the war.

  • He took occasion to abolish a variety of vexatious imposts, and the new budget fell less heavily on the Christians than the old.

  • So burdensome was the duty and so vexatious were the restrictions that it is a matter for wonder that the industry survived.

  • The Nestorians and the Eutychian Monophysites were not threatened with such severe civil penalties, although their worship was interdicted, and their bishops were sometimes banished; but this vexatious treatment was quite enough to keep them disaffected, and the rapidity of the Mahommedan conquests may be partly traced to that alienation of the bulk of the Egyptian and a large part of the Syrian population which dates from Justinian's persecutions.

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