Vexatious definition

Vexatious means troublesome or annoying in the case of being instituted without sufficient grounds and serving only to cause irritation and aggravation to the person being complained of.
Vexatious means without reasonable or probable cause or excuse.
Vexatious means a submission or comment that is without merit and pursued in a manner that is malicious or intended to embarrass or harass the recipient or others; and,

Examples of Vexatious in a sentence

  • INTRODUCTION Employees have the right to work in an environment free from harassment by: • employer • agents of the Company • other employees DEFINITION Harassment is defined as: • vexatious comment or conduct that is known or ought reasonably to be known to be unwelcome NOTE: Vexatious means irritating, annoying or disturbing.

  • Vexatious refers to behaviour which is agitating, disturbing, distressing or irritating.

  • Psychological Harassment - Vexatious behaviour in the form of conduct, verbal comments, actions or gestures that are hostile or unwanted, that affect the employee’s dignity, psychological or physical integrity, or that make the work environment harmful.

  • Vexatious behaviour may include a single serious incidence of such behaviour that has a lasting harmful effect on a Member.

  • Vexatious complaints occur when an individual makes a complaint with malicious intent or when a complaint is made that the person knows or ought reasonably to know is neither personal nor sexual harassment.


More Definitions of Vexatious

Vexatious means without reasonable or probably cause or excuse.
Vexatious means causing or tending to cause annoyance, frustration, or worry or malicious, or done as a means of revenge or spite to cause irritation.
Vexatious means lacking a sufficient ground and only serving to annoy and distress.
Vexatious. , in relation to a request means—
Vexatious means instituted without sufficient grounds and serving only to cause annoyance to the defendant; troublesome; annoying: a vexatious situation.
Vexatious means that the complaint or request for service is initiated with the intent to embarrass or annoy the recipient, or is part of a pattern of conduct by the complainant or requestor that amounts to an abuse of the complaint process or request for service.
Vexatious means causing or tending to cause annoyance, frustration, or worry.