problemsome

English

Etymology

From problem +‎ -some.

Adjective

problemsome (comparative more problemsome, superlative most problemsome)

1. Characterised or marked by problems
   • 1992, Bonnie Burstow, Radical Feminist Therapy: Working in the Context of Violence:

     They are legally mandated to intrude and imprison “the problemsome” on the grounds of dangerousness, whether “the problemsome” are truly dangerous or not and despite the fact that psychiatry's own research and amicus briefs indicate that psychiatrists have no reliability whatever in predicting dangerousness.

   • 2001, William Safire, Let a Simile be Your Umbrella:

     In an interview, he noted that the long delay in filling the post of Director of Central Intelligence was "especially problemsome."

   • 2005, J J Garrett, The Quixote Imbroglio: That Which Remains of the Burden of Honor:

     “[...] We find our meaning in different ways and had rather remain here poor than there poor with our problemsome families dispersed across the face of the earth instead of at home, nearby, for us to tend to.”