(a.) Pestering; vexatious; troublesome. Used also as an intensive.
Example Sentences:
(1) Finally, there is that pesky matter of public debt, which is still 90% of eurozone GDP.
(2) He is also characterised as "the devoted husband of a bestselling novelist with a few of her own ideas about how fiction works"; a funny sentence construction that carries a faint whiff of husband stoically bent over his books as wife keeps popping up with pesky theories about realism.
(3) If anyone in Macclesfield wants, for a small fee, I will come round to your house, lift the pesky varmint out of the bath with finger and thumb and fling it out of the window.
(4) I'd known I was a girl since I was four, if you'll excuse the cliche, but everyone told me I couldn't be, because of a pesky penis between my legs.
(5) Stokes sent a downward header towards the far corner from seven yards but the pesky keeper again meddled, diving full length to push it to safety.
(6) 7.55pm BST 8 min: Bayern are determined that they will prevail but pesky Dortmund just keep disrupting their attempts to build moves.
(7) The fate of the American car industry, that pesky stimulus package, impending financial and ecological doom.
(8) However, the same pesky proprietary screws are present, and it's never a joy to encounter fused (read: expensive to replace) displays.
(9) Hopefully users will be able to finally do away with pesky pins and iTunes passwords.
(10) They want to get round the pesky one-person-one-vote principle that democracies anachronistically cling to in the face of economic reality.
(11) And all because those pesky London house prices mean having room for a baby is a pipe dream.
(12) A lot of women have the idea that IUD, IUS and also injectables can affect future fertility in the long term, and there is really no evidence for that.” Mumbled misinformation aside, long-acting reversible contraception has a trump card, as one IUS-using friend put it: “Once it is installed in your body, you can’t not take it, so it gets rid of that pesky human error.” It’s a thought that has struck policy-makers, too.
(13) Once you start measuring a citizen’s worth and standing by their financial muscle, women will be disadvantaged, with their pesky career breaks and maternity leave entitlements.
(14) Unusual among grains, quinoa has a high protein content (between 14%-18%), and it contains all those pesky, yet essential, amino acids needed for good health that can prove so elusive to vegetarians who prefer not to pop food supplements.
(15) Yet the coalition's reflex response remains to defend the City against the pesky meddling of Brussels.
(16) There’s the constant traffic belching fumes that linger in the humid air; the uneven sidewalks that have a pesky habit of vanishing halfway along the street; the sheer distances to cover in this elongated, ever-expanding metropolis.
(17) Interviewed this morning about the interim report of Sir Howard Davies's Airports Commission , the London mayor sputtered with frustration at Britain's inability to get its act together and keep up with its international rivals: "You go to Hong Kong, they're flying every hour of the day and night," he said, forgetting to mention that in the Chinese territory decisions can be made without too much regard to the pesky demands of voters on the flightpath.
(18) He's still a pesky and dangerous playmaker, although his effectiveness of late has been sapped by a knee injury that the Spurs certainly will exploit.
(19) The old joke that the BBC would be an efficient, well oiled machine if it were not for the pesky programme makers, seemed to be taken seriously at the top.
(20) On interest rates, the Bank of England still has the pedal to the metal, and George Osborne has made sure the housing market is perky verging on pesky .
Vexatious
Definition:
(a.) Causing vexation; agitating; afflictive; annoying; as, a vexatious controversy; a vexatious neighbor.
(a.) Full or vexation, trouble, or disquiet; disturbed.
Example Sentences:
(1) Unions blame 70% fall in employment tribunal cases on fees Read more “The government originally said making people pay would weed out vexatious claims.
(2) Stirling's attempt to refuse the request, calling it "vexatious", smacks of fear.
(3) Calling the story, originally published on gossip website TMZ “a vexatious lie”, Morrissey threatened legal action and claimed the matter is “in the hands of” Los Angeles police.
(4) The IPT invited us to respond to the security services' assertion that the claim was "vexatious", but was unable to tell us what their substantive response was – because the security services did not consent to Shaker knowing whether they had actually been defaming him in secret.
(5) The best contributions tell the truth, or if not the truth (a vexatious and flexible concept, given history’s tendency to be somewhat in the eye of the beholder) – then at least truth according to the person providing the story.
(6) He said that the "late submission of thousands of pages of documents was both vexatious and unreasonable".
(7) It is easy to accuse Clegg of mishandling the Rennard affair but he is at the mercy of a chaotic "open market" for vexatious litigation and of an upper chamber of Byzantine archaism desperately in need of reform.
(8) The paperwork that embodies government outsourcing, the physical contracts themselves, tells you a lot about how vexatious the whole business is.
(9) "What the commissioner has ruled is that he doesn't believe that the request is vexatious," a spokeswoman said.
(10) She doesn't believe that people willingly pursue "vexatious claims".
(11) "Frivolous or vexatious claims" could be struck out at an early stage.
(12) Parliament on Monday proposed no safeguards against this becoming a PPI-style stampede for anyone – including lobbyists – trying to grab a compulsory correction plus a quick payof f. Fining journalists for unethical deeds is a charter for the vexatious.
(13) Many complaints received by the IPT were "frivolous, vexatious" or even paranoid, he explained, some, for example, of the type where people claimed that listening devices had been implanted in their teeth by MI5.
(14) However, it would not be abhorrent to its business practices and shareholders: an algorithmic tweak knocking out a whole class of vexatious litigants would surely be worth it?
(15) It’s why we remove malware from our search results and other products.” Whetstone’s blog post poked fun at Thomson’s assertion that by undermining the “basic business model of professional content creators” such as News Corp, Google was helping create a “less informed, more vexatious level of dialogue”, with the result that “intemperate trends” across Europe would proliferate.
(16) The vexatious issue of the 'post-concussional syndrome' is discussed and the conclusion is reached that it is unlikely that this syndrome is solely produced by the possibility of compensation.
(17) The university said the firm's application, originally made anonymously through a London law firm, was "vexatious" and rejected it.
(18) Naylor's chief operating officer, Bridie Warner-Adsetts, said a reduction in "vexatious" employment tribunal claims would also benefit businesses.
(19) Undermining the basic business model of professional content creators will lead to a less informed, more vexatious level of dialogue in our society," he wrote.
(20) Robert Thomson, chief executive of the company, had accused Google of creating a “less informed, more vexatious level of dialogue in our society”.