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• s  causing irritation or annoyance
  a vexatious child

• She had some rather "disappointing and vexatious" defeats in Greece and Crete and Tobruk and in Burma.
• Nudity in magazines, on the stage and in the movies has become a vexatious issue for just about everybody.
• Surely some time, perhaps this month so almost everyone thought and hoped at least some of the vexatious problems brought on by the war would disappear.

• annoying
• bothersome
• galling
• irritating
• nettlesome
• pesky
• pestering
• pestiferous
• plaguy
• plaguey
• teasing
• vexing

News & Articles

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• Obama To Face Off Against Russia's Vladimir Putin In The Midst Of Syrian Proxy War
  President Barack Obama meets Russia's Vladimir Putin on Monday for potentially vexatious talks, as both leaders now offer open military backing to rival sides in Syria's civil war.
  June 16, 2013 - Business Insider

Quotes

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• Wendy Alexander in BBC News
  Ms Alexander added: "It is clear that vexatious complaints will continue to dominate the headlines as long as I remain Labour's Scottish Parliamentary Leader. I cannot ask Labour supporters in Scotland for further forbearance."
• Anthony Kennedy in San Diego Union Tribune
  In the main opinion, Kennedy said that the president is not above the law, but there is a "paramount necessity of protecting the executive branch from vexatious litigation that might distract it from the energetic performance of its constitutional...