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nuisance
[ noo-suhns, nyoo- ]
noun
- an obnoxious or annoying person, thing, condition, practice, etc.:
a monthly meeting that was more nuisance than pleasure.
- Law. something offensive or annoying to individuals or to the community, especially in violation of their legal rights.
nuisance
/ ˈnjuːsəns /
noun
- a person or thing that causes annoyance or bother
- ( as modifier )
nuisance calls
- law something unauthorized that is obnoxious or injurious to the community at large ( public nuisance ) or to an individual, esp in relation to his ownership or occupation of property ( private nuisance )
- nuisance valuenuisance value the usefulness of a person's or thing's capacity to cause difficulties or irritation
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of nuisance1
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Idioms and Phrases
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Example Sentences
Poetry would be too obvious, too ‘portrait of the artist as a young nuisance’.
If my legs made me a nuisance, I vowed to become less of one.
Other questions: Should nuisance bears be euthanized if they are serial offenders?
Last year, there were a record 6,726, covering “nuisance” behavior, property damage, injuries to bears, and injuries to humans.
It also reduces nuisance, so there is less trouble in the neighborhood.
Beastly nuisance; we shall all have to clear out, for I suppose it won't be a mere matter of scratches.
It was rather a nuisance, too, to find that wherever he went he excited a considerable amount of attention.
Even the storage of gasoline in suitable tanks set down in the earth is not a nuisance.
Yet the business may become a nuisance when conducted in some localities, or in an improper manner.
I am very much taken with her, which causes Rubinstein to be a perfect nuisance.
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