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She had to be the most vexatious female he'd ever met.

It was vexatious; just when he wanted to get out of the way for a week or two.

It was very vexatious to a man so pressed for time.

Together, they tried to build a boat, which took many vexatious weeks.

It is rather vexatious to have happened so soon, as I had intended never to be late.

A risk of the trade, to be sure, but nevertheless vexatious.

Even a vexatious prostitute has the right to live her life.

It was a vexatious summons, and none of them turned up.

Of course, one must always pay the price, usually a vexatious one.

America has several reasons to be dismayed at Israel's vexatious behavior.

The results were of an extremely vexatious and repugnant nature.

But the most vexatious and humiliating items meant nothing to me any more.

Let us leave such vexatious matters for the time being.'

There has been a long, vexatious correspondence on the subject."

Another vexatious question is where the citadel was built originally.

"It is crucial that these vexatious applications be struck out."

The work could even be pointless and vexatious, without any useful output.

Certain vexatious questions of diplomatic etiquette were settled once and for all.

He suddenly had deeper understanding of the word "vexatious."

He said that most vexatious litigation was ended by summary judgment.

This should see an end to frivolous and vexatious claims."

"Really," she said, "children are the most vexatious creatures in the world.

Like most anyone who spent any length of time with Q, the first officer had no great love for the vexatious entity.

He has what my grandmother used to refer to as a vexatious personality."

Lowering partisan temperatures and finding ways around vexatious issues has its price, of course.

A more vexing problem is what the rest of us should do.

Perhaps his most vexing years in office were 1969 and 1979.

But this vexing situation may be coming to an end over here.

Let me run my mind over and around this vexing problem.

It's a vexing problem, one that most of us never have to think about.

"At some point that is going to be a vexing political problem for Republicans."

It is a vexing question, given the speed with which technology changes.

And as you've pointed out, the most vexing question of all, why do they come?

And yet it is among the most vexing issues that the next senator will have to face.

Worse, there was always the vexing process of where to start: the river?

The balance between form and content has been a vexing issue.

He is a most vexing addition to our party, yet one cannot help laughing at him.

To still others, the vexing roles of money and race in the justice system.

"It is one of the remaining, most vexing water quality problems we have."

Perhaps the most vexing issue is how candid to be with the children.

But it turned out that loyalty can be a vexing matter, too.

But the more vexing question is whether there's such a thing as race in terms of biology.

The Yankees' most vexing player said he is here to stay.

"The vexing thing is that it would be so easy to solve."

Orlando's most vexing problem, by far, is its high rate of drug use, particularly among young people.

So far, one of his most vexing students is Lawrence, the 9-year-old boy who can read no more than a few words on a page.

The third layer of explanation is also the most vexing.

But the vexing questions of this war have pulled them in different directions.

It's not the first time such vexing questions have arisen in Washington.

States are also expanding transportation programs, but here the problem may be even more vexing.