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Answer for the clue "Causing trouble ", 10 letters:
bothersome

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Word definitions for bothersome in dictionaries

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bothersome \Both"er*some\, a. Vexatious; causing bother; causing trouble or perplexity; troublesome.

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. Causing bother or perplexity.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1817, from bother + -some (1).

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ bothersome insects ▪ a bothersome delay EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ His 44 minutes came a night after playing 38 with a bothersome back injury at San Antonio. ▪ I played with this the entire season and it was bothersome ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. causing irritation or annoyance; "tapping an annoying rhythm on his glass with his fork"; "aircraft noise is particularly bothersome near the airport"; "found it galling to have to ask permission"; "an irritating delay"; "nettlesome paperwork"; "a ...

Usage examples of bothersome.

The invasion of the Infernal plane had come as the rudest shock of all, and now this bothersome banditry, forcing his hand to acts of repression before he was ready to introduce them.

At the first unhappy yowl, Bozo pricked up his ears and saw the trouble his bothersome pup had gotten into.

The Ulk Bog went right at the monster, a bothersome gnat waiting to be crushed.

Flies gathered around him in swarms, covering every part of his body, and he repeatedly had to remind himself of his Brahminical heritage which forbade him from swatting the bothersome insects.

As for feminism in general, well, my position here was that of the unbudgeably powerful mob boss who, when piqued by bothersome incursions that threaten to sour the whole deal, calls the Ladies in and calmly says, Okay, so you want a piece of this.

As I entered the hall of our house that noon and in the cool, cellarlike air felt dark admonishments of a thousand bothersome and hateful things and systems wafting into my face, my thoughts were preoccupied with Oskar Weber.

The Moon Maid herself felt more kinship with this pride than with a pack of bothersome Cimmerians who treated her sex like dirt.

Do not react hostilely to the crazymaking, even if it is very bothersome.

This fluttery outburst from her private secretary was more bothersome to her than the actual petition had been.

Razor reacted immediately to the new threat, his sword instantly in his hand, but some unseen force picked him up and threw him aside as casually as a bothersome insect.

Tough, experienced veteran soldiers were tossed aside amid cries of agony and fury, as if they were no more than bothersome boys.

The uninterrupted panorama presented bothersome complications: How could he approach the camp undetected across perfectly flat terrain?

But then it began to mark off any word it was unfamiliar with, which was a little bothersome because my vocabulary is a large one and I have no objection to making up words.

Helbah was a very demanding trainer who would consider their dying of overload to be but a bothersome delay.

Of course Kildom and Kildee had been crude and bothersome enough when younger.