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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

I rose early; and yet, in three months of country negligence, my clothes had all grown so troublesomely unbecoming, that, before I could make them look tolerable, the family were assembled at breakfast.

From Discipline by Brunton, Mary

A brilliant future, a wider career, a conscience exempt from the reproach of interference between a young lady and her natural rights—these excellent things might be too troublesomely purchased.

From Washington Square by James, Henry