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n. - The quality of being hard to handle.

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  • That if it's difficult, she won't deal with the difficultness, and just gives up.
  • The cause was her diva-like difficultness on the set and the producers weren't buying it.
  • Asbestos claims eupneic difficultness is the basic symptom of asbestosis mesothelioma and the persons who are earnestly purulent hawthorn beautify victims of come...
  • My parents 'rudimentary concern about the environment is regularly challenged by difficultness - at 63, it's tough for them to battle through 19 different Dorset council...
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