troublesome
adjective
causing trouble, annoyance, or difficulty; vexatious.
troublesomely
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a word derived from
troublesome.
Example Sentences
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The book is organised by taxonomy, starting with single-cell organisms, working through worms and crustaceans, arachnids and insects, all the way to those troublesomely interstitial chordata.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 11, 2010
Hart's original account of the boat trip was troublesomely vague.
From Time Magazine Archive
The wholesale price index fell .4% in December, indicating a continuing slackening of inflationary pressures, but the nation's troublesomely high unemployment rate remained unchanged at 8.3%.
From Time Magazine Archive
John Bull, I grieve to say, is growing So troublesomely sharp and knowing, So wise—in short, so Jacobin— 'Tis monstrous hard to take him in.
From The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes by William Michael Rossetti
To advocate any special belief was to prick one's self down a bore, although some of those in the strictly university circles did at times become troublesomely learned in conversation.
From The Tyranny of the Dark by Hamlin Garland
