nuisance

A day after the fire started, the county air pollution control agency issued three violations against the Navy, citing the fire’s smoke and odors as a public nuisance under state health and safety and county codes.

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.

But the Roma remained on the streets of French cities, perceived as a nuisance in many places, a threat in some.

Franz Joseph lit the Hofburg Palace with kerosene lamps and viewed the telephone as a nuisance.

Anger or fear is often a nuisance in civilized life, and any strong emotion is apt to disturb mental work or skilled manual work.

But, though few in number, they had already proved a nuisance.

Often, however, this ability is a disadvantage, because the plants are prone to spread and become a nuisance unless watched.

Without the peaceable spirit it only renders its possessor a bully and a nuisance.

It's a nuisance to have to give ourselves away, but I can't see anything for it but to knock and get the window opened.