Definitions
Wiktionary
- adj. distressing, worrying
- v. present participle of trouble.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. causing distress or worry or anxiety
Examples
“He was already preparing for a possible war with Iraq when he got what he called the troubling news about North Korea's nuclear program.”
“In June 2010, I wrote in this space about a book, "The New Jim Crow," by Michelle Alexander, which I called a "troubling and profoundly necessary" work.”
“Lawsky says the agreements go a long way to clean up what he calls troubling practices in the mortgage industry.”
“One of Perry's rivals, businessman Herman Cain, called the use of the name troubling.”
“Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton sharply criticized what she called "troubling practices" before and during the vote in”
“Finn had acknowledged a month earlier that he had known about suspected pornographic images of children on Ratigan's computer since December, when a technician found hundreds of what he called "troubling images" on the priest's laptop.”
“Equally troubling is the fact that this bill singles out the Roman Catholic Church.”
“Whats even more troubling is the fact that any pictures were on there to begin with.”
Best Buy Loaner Phone Filled With Pornography - The Consumerist
“This magazine's behind the curveJust as Beautiful – "The new lifestyle magazine for curvy women" – is troubling from the start.”
The Guardian: Why Ed reminds women of every bad ex-boyfriend
“What's most troubling is not that this $65 tome may be on the wine shelf at Borders, but that it is the primary text book for teaching young chefs and sommeliers about the world of wine.”
The Washington Post: Wine: What Virginia and Maryland are up against
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘troubling’.
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some-ing
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Things from my memory
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Words For Novel
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What Is a Reesetee, Anyhow?
It kinda all started on limpkin...
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eesome
Includes any intangible conceivable independently of Hom. Sap.
depthless, overspire, unsteady, thitherward, rile, munchable, covet, pastinaceous, mirtle, slonk, tink, inerrarable and 345 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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Obstinate Buffaloes
Words that you wouldn't think described collections of animals
sleuth, grist, obstinacy, kaleidoscope, quiver, business, earth, troubling, smack, surfeit, confusion, dissimulation and 19 more...
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ofravens goes bird-watching
Various names for groups of birds.
dissimulation, bouquet, parliament, chattering, convocation, exaltation, covey, congress, deceit, descent, charm, flush and 74 more...
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skipvia's Words
syzygy, egg, lossy, catharsis, impuissance, truckle, obsequious, sequoia, sonot khazoot, alizarin, sepulchre, klister and 434 more...
Tweets
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chained_bear See aboiement (if you're looking for a reason why it's on the Reesetee list). Jan 5, 2008
yarb In the language of international diplomacy, this means outrageous or gubu.
E.g. "Chinese ministerial sources expressed regret at the outcome of the Taiwanese election, which they described as a troubling development." Nov 15, 2007
skipvia A school of goldfish Nov 15, 2007