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Examples

  • I call Nuisance in a whisper and drop onto my bed.

    Losing Faith Denise Jaden 2010

  • Faith and me, even to this day—well okay, until last week—we rolled our eyes every time he called Nuisance in that tone that made it obvious he still thought it was hysterical.

    Losing Faith Denise Jaden 2010

  • Nuisance is the nice word for the hateful exchange that a relationship can survive, and by surviving can become resilient rather than merely wishful.

    Archive 2004-09-01 M-mv 2004

  • Nuisance is the nice word for the hateful exchange that a relationship can survive, and by surviving can become resilient rather than merely wishful.

    "Nuisance Value" M-mv 2004

  • Okay, by now I've made enough posts on this topic that you guys have found out why I'm called Nuisance Man!

    OpEdNews - Diary: Banned Word, Censorship Epilogue 2007

  • The sound of that everlasting scolding was part of the place like the other fixtures; even strangers would very soon come to disregard it completely unless it be perhaps to mutter "Nuisance," or to get up suddenly and shut the door of the "parlour."

    Lord Jim 1899

  • In the parish of Lowestoft, Suffolk, in the forties the parish clerk's name was Newson (would-be wits called him "Nuisance").

    The Parish Clerk 1892

  • The sound of that everlasting scolding was part of the place like the other fixtures; even strangers would very soon come to disregard it completely unless it be perhaps to mutter "Nuisance," or to get up suddenly and shut the door of the "parlour."

    Lord Jim Joseph Conrad 1890

  • Thence to Westminster Hall, and there to the conference of the Houses about the word "Nuisance,"

    Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1667 N.S. Samuel Pepys 1668

  • Lords do agree at last with the Commons about the word "Nuisance" in the

    Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1667 N.S. Samuel Pepys 1668

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