Your children were vexation to your youth.
Shak.
3. A harassing by process of law; a vexing or troubling, as by a
malicious suit. Bacon.
Syn. — Chagrin; agitation; mortification; uneasiness; trouble; grief;
sorrow; distress. See Chagrin.
Vex*a"tious (?), a. [See Vexation.] 1. Causing vexation; agitating;
afflictive; annoying; as, a vexatious controversy; a vexatious
neighbor. "Continual vexatious wars." South.