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TROUBLESOME
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Causing difficulty or annoyance
Example:
a troublesome situation
Classified under:
Similar:
difficult; hard (not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure)
Derivation:
troublesomeness (a difficulty that causes anxiety)
Context examples:
"That is to say," cried Marianne contemptuously, "he has told you, that in the East Indies the climate is hot, and the mosquitoes are troublesome."
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
Placement of intracoronary devices across the coronary stenosis is troublesome or formidable.
(Difficulty Crossing Culprit Lesion During Percutaneous Coronary Intervention, NCI Thesaurus/ACC)
Would Sir Thomas have consented to eat, she might have gone to the housekeeper with troublesome directions, and insulted the footmen with injunctions of despatch; but Sir Thomas resolutely declined all dinner: he would take nothing, nothing till tea came—he would rather wait for tea.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
A very short trial convinced her that a curricle was the prettiest equipage in the world; the chaise and four wheeled off with some grandeur, to be sure, but it was a heavy and troublesome business, and she could not easily forget its having stopped two hours at Petty France.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
“I do believe,” she continued, “this is the most troublesome parish that ever was. We never heard of such things at Maple Grove.”
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
"Walter," said she, "get down this moment. You are extremely troublesome. I am very angry with you."
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
Mrs. Crupp was taken with a troublesome cough, in the midst of which she articulated with much difficulty.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
I should have lived happy enough in that country, if my littleness had not exposed me to several ridiculous and troublesome accidents; some of which I shall venture to relate.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
This will be a troublesome point in the month because Uranus, the planet of sudden, surprising change, will challenge that new moon and Sun from a 90-degree square position (denoting obstacles) from your ninth house.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
Marianne was spared from the troublesome feelings of contempt and resentment, on this impertinent examination of their features, and on the puppyism of his manner in deciding on all the different horrors of the different toothpick-cases presented to his inspection, by remaining unconscious of it all; for she was as well able to collect her thoughts within herself, and be as ignorant of what was passing around her, in Mr. Gray's shop, as in her own bedroom.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
