trou·ble·some

(trŭb′əl-səm)

adj.

Characterized by or causing trouble or anxiety.

trou′ble·some·ly adv.

trou′ble·some·ness n.

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Noun

troublesomeness - a difficulty that causes anxiety

worriment, inconvenience

difficultness, difficulty - the quality of being difficult; "they agreed about the difficulty of the climb"

cumbersomeness, unwieldiness, awkwardness - trouble in carrying or managing caused by bulk or shape; "the movers cursed the unwieldiness of the big piano"

flea bite - a very minor inconvenience

fly in the ointment - an inconvenience that detracts from the usefulness of something

unwieldiness - the quality of being difficult to direct or control by reason of complexity; "avoiding the unwieldiness of formal legal processes"; "the onset of unwieldiness and bureaucracy in large organizations"

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Yet as Cresacre More, More's great-grandson, speaking of his great-grandfather's writing, says, he "seasoned always the troublesomeness of the matter with some merry jests or pleasant tales, as it were sugar, whereby we drink up the more willingly these wholesome drugs .

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Samuel had brought the divorce before the court on the accounts of troublesomeness, disrespect and violence by the wife.

My Wife Tore All My Clothes, Slapped Me Three Times, Held A Knife To My Chest, Pastor-Husband Tells Court

Identifying atomic structure as a threshold concept: Student mental models and troublesomeness. International Journal of Science Education, 31,233-258.

Inquiry based-computational experiment, acquisition of threshold concepts and argumentation in science and mathematics education

This focus on changes to our practice related to our students but not to our community partners only became obvious to us after analyzing our reflection products, providing evidence not only of the troublesomeness of the concept but also of the value of our self-study for our own learning.

Decoding ourselves: an inquiry into faculty learning about reciprocity in service-learning

The half-formed nature is the creative space--a cauldron of construction, suggesting transformation but troublesomeness, change and disturbance, dis-ease.

"I Am Not That Girl": Disturbance, Creativity, Play, Echoes, Liminality, Self-Reflection and Stream of Consciousness in Eimear McBride's A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing

This troublesomeness seems to rest on a hasty assessment: even with his solid historical training, Hayden White was (and, to a great extent, still is) seen as an outsider in the history field as Levi-Strauss was in the 1950s and 1960s.

Brazilian Hamlet: essay on linguistic turn and historiographical indeterminacy (1970-1980)