troublemaking

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English

Etymology

From trouble +‎ making.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

troublemaking (comparative more troublemaking, superlative most troublemaking)

  1. Causing trouble.
    • 2005, Christopher Hitchens, "André Malraux: One Man's Fate", New York Times Book Review, 10 Apr 2005:
      Moving to Saignon in the mid-1920s, he helped to produce a troublemaking newspaper, L'Indochine, which ventilated the many complaints of the Vietnamese about forced labor, land expropriation, and police brutality.

Translations

Noun

troublemaking (usually uncountable, plural troublemakings)

  1. Causing trouble; acting in a disruptive way
    • 2007 July 26, Anna Jane Grossman, “Is Junie B. Jones Talking Trash?”, in New York Times‎[1]:
      The spunky kindergartener (first grader in more recent volumes) is prone to troublemaking, often calls people names and isn’t averse to talking back to her teachers.

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