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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Causing trouble or anxiety; worrisome.
  2. adj. Difficult; trying.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Annoying; vexatious: as, a troublesome cough; a troublesome neighbor.
  2. Difficult; trying: as, a troublesome shoal or reef; a troublesome fellow to deal with.
  3. Tumultuous; turbulent; boisterous.
  4. Troublous; disturbed.
  5. Synonyms and Harassing, wearisome, perplexing, galling.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Giving trouble or anxiety; vexatious; burdensome; wearisome.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Giving trouble or anxiety; vexatious; burdensome; wearisome.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. difficult to deal with

Examples

  • “SWEENEY: Well, I'm quoting here from "The International Herald Tribune," or at least paraphrasing, saying that while people and reporters were aware that a propaganda campaign was underway quite quickly by the Chinese authorities, that many journalists approved of upbeat stories based on national unity, and to the avoidance of what they call troublesome issues.”

    CNN Transcript May 23, 2008

  • “Particularly troublesome is U.S. help, as President Ali Abdullah Saleh tries to balance the myriad allegiances of the country's tribes, many of them strongly anti-American.”

    Voice of America: Two in Custody, Yemen Searches for Suspects in Bomb Plot

  • “Killing animals, whether or not troublesome, is far less troublesome than suffering.”

    inauguration « paper fruit

  • “Equally, troublesome is the passive attitude of all the women newscasters and political pundits on CNN.”

    Web Report:

  • “What actually troublesome is Lieberman's continues appearance with McCain.”

    McCain defends his 'bearings'

  • “More troublesome is the administration's tactic to pull out just before a judge decides an issue thus rendering the case moot.”

    Balkinization

  • “Especially troublesome is the above quote stating that “This man literally has figured out the way the brain learns things”?”

    Smart Mobs » Blog Archive » Will my computer ever understand?

  • “I think many people would have no problem with a legal contract known as same-sex unions, but what seems inflammatory and troublesome is calling it marriage.”

    Balloon Juice » 2003 » July

  • “The potential for subtractive failure, different and more troublesome, is raised by recent calls to deploy biometric identification tools across the nation.”

    Homeland Insecurity

  • “Board proposed, was that the party wanted to put all the African areas - which it perceived as "troublesome" - in one sub-structure.”

    ANC Daily News Briefing

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