Fwd: vexatious: Dictionary.com Word of the Day

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Date: 2013/11/3
Subject: vexatious: Dictionary.com Word of the Day
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	Word of the Day for Sunday, November 3, 2013 vexatious \vek-SEY-shuhs\, adjective: 1. causing vexation; troublesome; annoying: a vexatious situation. 2. Law. (of legal actions) instituted without sufficient grounds and serving only to cause annoyance to the defendant. 3. disorderly; confused; troubled. The courts of law would never be so constantly crowded with petty, vexatious and disgraceful suits, were it not for the herds of pettifogging lawyers that infest them. -- Washington Irving, A History of New York, 1809 Thus the most vexatious and violent disputes would often arise between the fishermen, were there not some written or unwritten, universal, undisputed law applicable to all cases. -- Herman Melville, Moby Dick; or, The Whale, 1851 Vexatious entered English from the Latin word vexāre which meant "to shake, jolt, harass, annoy." Read the full entry | See synonyms | Comment on today's word | Suggest tomorrow's word Yesterday's word | Previous words | Help Words of the Day? How about words of timeless wisdom? Introducing our Quotes channel! "Life itself is a quotation." - Jorge Luis Borges Check out the Quote of the Day ›› 7 Timeless Epistolary Novels The term epistolary, meaning "consisting of letters," entered English in the 1600s from the Greek term meaning "message" or "letter." An epistolary novel is a story told exclusively through fictionalized letters, emails, newspaper articles, and other primary sources. The form experienced a popularity surge in the mid-1700s, and has since structured some of the most... Read more ›› Dictionary.com Word of the Day You are subscribed to the Word of the Day as: hectorpinillos@gmail.com Subscriber since: June 03, 2013 Unsubscribe from the Word of the Day To subscribe to the Word of the Day by email, please send a blank message to: join-wordoftheday@lists.lexico.com ©2013 by Dictionary.com, LLC. 555 12th Street Suite 500 Oakland CA 94607 Subscriptions to the Word of the Day can also be managed online   Tell a friend about the Word of the Day!

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