troublous

• It was a troublous, harassing time for him, that summer of 1784, and the more since the woes of the distracted lover were added to those of the disappointed playwright and the impecunious debtor. —  The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller
• CHAPTER XXXII The Appointed Time It is night in Lincoln's Inn -- perplexed and troublous valley of the shadow of the law, where suitors generally find but little day -- and fat candles are snuffed out in offices, and clerks have rattled down the crazy wooden stairs and dispersed. —  Bleak House
• Not the half of the dilapidations are yet put right, and in these troublous times, who knows when we may again be under attack? —  St. Peter's Fair
• A new epoch opened--troublous, lewd, dissolute. —  The Story of Versailles
• Citizens cared only about their own concerns. —  Split Infinity

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