nuisance

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  1. noun One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother: Having to stand in line was a nuisance. The disruptive child was a nuisance to the class.
  2. noun Law A use of property or course of conduct that interferes with the legal rights of others by causing damage, annoyance, or inconvenience.

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  • For example, city-parish Animal Control Director Hilton Cole noted that unleashed cats can be classified as a nuisance if they wander onto neighboring properties and cause problems. —  2theadvocate.com Latest News
  • Often, he'd thought how lucky people had been who were born a hundred and fifty years ago, moving into an easy, rich country like the Ohio or Kentucky when it was new, instead of the bitter North The Harn would be a nuisance--Ed did not think of it as the Harn, of course, but just as "they"--but he supposed he could find a way to clean them out. —  Cat and Mouse
  • The multitude running about the streets was felt to be a nuisance, and the destruction of flocks required some check; but the frame-work of the bill was objectionable, and the charge excessive. —  The History of Tasmania, Volume I
  • "What a nuisance is a woman's hair, isn't it, Mr Gerrard? —  Tom Gerrard
  • Except for the nuisance, it didnt particularly matter. —  Greener Than You Think
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inconvenience ·  annoyance ·  torment ·  hardship ·  distraction ·  scandal ·  blunder ·  pest ·  headache ·  hindrance ·  fuss ·  outrage

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nuisance:   nuisances
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Middle English, from Old French, from nuire, nuis-, to harm, from Vulgar Latin *nocere, from Latin nocēre; see nek-1 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English nuisance, nusance, noisance, noisaunce, noysaunce, from Old French noisance, nuisance, French nuisance = Provencal noysensa, nozensa = Italian nocenza, nocenzia, from Middle Latin nocentia, a hurt, injury, from Latin nocen (t-) s, present participle of nocere, hurt, harm: see nocent, and cf. noisant.
 

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