Definitions
Wiktionary
- adj. Causing trouble.
- n. Causing trouble; acting in a disruptive way
Etymologies
- From trouble + making. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Although Willie was known as a troublemaking bully in Anniston, he knew better than to mess with my daddy.”
“His voice rose steadily until he was shouting, and on "troublemaking" his hair burst into flames.”
“Adjectives make all the difference, as in using "troublemaking" to modify”
“It's a terrible situation when someone isn't going to assert their legal rights just because it could be seen as 'troublemaking'.”
“Henning Fürst and Eric Berglund have been friends since they were 12, and even now they're just the kind of troublemaking youths you'd expect to make this kind of "out there" pop music.”
“But by the time revanchist nationalism peaked in the late 1990s, the troops were already out of the Baltics, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan, and the potential for troublemaking was correspondingly smaller.”
“For once, my troublemaking brother played the role of peacemaker.”
“The Senegalese seems to have tired of his usual in-your-face troublemaking schtick and entered his experimental prog-rock phase.”
The Guardian: Blackburn Rovers Premier League 2011-12 team guide
“Republicans are a shameful bunch – and a bunch of troublemaking liars and idiots.”
“Here you will find, to your amused horror, the inimitable online stylings of the cult: the odd, snooty-ootily formal prose, no doubt informed, in this case, by the bombastic, faux-eloquent tone of the novel itself; the unchallengeable quotations of the master (read: mistress); the ecstatic squeals ("I love John Galt!") of the eager acolyte; and the dismissal of troublemaking skeptics without actually addressing what they say.”
The Huffington Post: Ellis Weiner: "I love John Galt!" (Atlas Shrugged: the Movie)
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘troublemaking’.
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panvowels
Words that contain every vowel.
ambidextrous, cauliflower, exhaustion, mustachioed, postneuralgic, sulphogermanic, tambourine, troublemaking, ulceration, undisprovable, unproblematic, pneumonia and 1 more...
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Panvocalics
Panvocalics are words that contain all the vowels. Listed here are "euvocalics": words that have each of the five vowels only once. (These are also a kind of supervocalic.) Words that also have a "...
subcontinental, unoriental, ultraviolet, tourmaline, sequoia, jacqueminot, milquetoast, xenosaurid, thunderation, adenovirus, accoutering, absolutive and 2777 more...
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SAT
abandon,extreme e..., abash,to humiliate, abate,to lessen, abbreviate,to sho..., abridge, abdicate,to forma..., aberration,depart..., abnormality, abet,to encourage, abhor,to hate, abide,to follow o..., abject,utterly ho... and 2228 more...
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Rillons of Random Palavery
A list for terms and phrases that I haven't (yet) entered into themed lists, including my series of various 151-word Random Palavery lists. Constructions that catch my eye, ring in my ears, tease m...
ridge cucumber, co-CEO, debt worry, jackalope bustiere, gimblette, ring-biscuit, cobnut, poussoir, praire, coque rayée, rigadelle, coing and 1459 more...
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SAT
abandon,extreme e..., dispensing of all..., abash,to humiliate, abate,to lessen, abbreviate,to sho..., abridge, abdicate,to forma..., aberration,depart..., abnormality, abet,to encourage, abhor,to hate, abide,to follow o... and 2229 more...
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SAT
abandon,extreme e..., dispensing of all..., abash,to humiliate, abate,to lessen, abbreviate,to sho..., abridge, abdicate,to forma..., aberration,depart..., abnormality, abet,to encourage, abhor,to hate, abide,to follow o... and 2229 more...
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Half the Alphabet
List of words that contain 13 of the 26 letters of the English alphabet, each unique, unrepeated.
The obvious place to start looking was mollusque's fine long list "Panvocalic euryvoca...hemidactylous, subordinately, documentarily, objurgatively, pseudonymical, semivoluntary, undivorceably, outspeakingly, hydrocalumite, amphigenously, uncombatively, procuratively and 29 more...
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