Adjective : a troublesome situation; a troublesome person. From Dictionary.com.
He may presume, and become troublesomely garrulous. '. From Wordnik.com. [Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte] Reference
Might part of a secret bargain be that Merseia rids the Imperium of troublesomely independent subjects?. From Wordnik.com. [A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows]
But they seem troublesomely loud, not to mention expensive and long-lived, so I've never had one for a pet. From Wordnik.com. [Day 11 of NaBloPoMo and I'm getting desperate] Reference
The interior of the city is ill built: the streets are narrow and irregular, and the pavement is most troublesomely rough. From Wordnik.com. [Travels through the South of France and the Interior of Provinces of Provence and Languedoc in the Years 1807 and 1808] Reference
She affected extravagance that she might not appear mean, and troublesomely ceremonious that she might not seem to want good manners. From Wordnik.com. [Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences] Reference
And although he had another engagement later, as he now troublesomely recalled, at the Starks for dinner, still it was necessary to do this first. From Wordnik.com. [An American Tragedy] Reference
So whilst paying back the proceeds of their crime from wages (or benefits) they boost their troublesomely reduced income by committing more crimes. From Wordnik.com. [Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister?] Reference
Such considerations can provide strong constraints on models, sometimes pushing reheat temperatures down to troublesomely low ranges (more about this soon). From Wordnik.com. [The Results of Resonance] Reference
It is now troublesomely clear that we could have prevented these abuses if we had applied the same racial justice lens to new lending practices as we had to the old. From Wordnik.com. [Seth Freed Wessler: Stop the Next American Nightmare] Reference
A troublesomely awkward or embarrassing situation: Gurnley usually managed to worm his way out of trouble, but this time he found himself in a fine kettle of fish. From Wordnik.com. [fine kettle of fish] Reference
An un-famous person finds it however, a little difficult to sympathize with Tennyson's overpowering horror of the troublesomely affectionate curiosity of which he is the object. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873] Reference
A brilliant future, a wider career, a conscience exempt from the reproach of interference between a young lady and her natural rights — these excellent things might be too troublesomely purchased. From Wordnik.com. [Washington Square] Reference
Madame Francesca de Lazzari, being often solicited by their messages, and troublesomely pestered with their importunities: at last (lesse advisedly then she intended) shee granted admittance to heare either of them speake. From Wordnik.com. [The Decameron] Reference
This “matter of comity,” which usually refers to the informal and voluntary recognition of jurisdiction among courts, is a troublesomely ambiguous phrase in this context wherein the president determines this as he “coordinates.”. From Wordnik.com. [NSPD-51 and the Potential for a Coup d'Etat by National Emergency] Reference
The chalk, I surmise, will be troublesomely in requisition. From Wordnik.com. [The Wagnerian Romances] Reference
More troublesomely, my gut tells me that Afghanistan is lost. From Wordnik.com. [AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed] Reference
Imploringly To appeal and beg troublesomely urgent • or persistent with entreat pressingly. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
She hated Irons devoutly, but his scheme meant financial profit to her, and various bills were troublesomely overdue. From Wordnik.com. [The Philistines] Reference
Alas, it seemed that this was an old, old struggle that must be troublesomely fought out, again and again down the generations. From Wordnik.com. [Where the Blue Begins] Reference
She reached Chalk-Newton, and breakfasted at an inn, where several young men were troublesomely complimentary to her good looks. From Wordnik.com. [Tess of the d'Urbervilles] Reference
In Geneva and other large towns the labor question troublesomely enters, and the radicals, like our Democrats, are sometimes the retrograde party. From Wordnik.com. [A Little Swiss Sojourn] Reference
That was well worth the effort to take the pen once more in hand, and affix the troublesomely long name of Elizabeth to some few official documents. From Wordnik.com. [The Daughter of an Empress] Reference
Most troublesomely, here a photo of an arsenal from the myspace page of the suspect and that's obviously just dangerous looking and without much security. From Wordnik.com. [Tony's Kansas City] Reference
Then Mr Dispondency said to his Friends, Myself and my Daughter, you know what we have been, and how troublesomely we have behaved ourselves in every Company. From Wordnik.com. [The Pilgrims Progress, in the Similitude of a Dream; The Second Part. Paras. 700-787] Reference
Shakespeare suddenly filling that place and extending his vast shadow over the region we had so troublesomely passed through, but now another embarrassment of riches attended us. From Wordnik.com. [London Films] Reference
Her thick dark hair did not hang down her back in the rich spiral curl which is now becoming so common among schoolgirls; for that it was too plentiful, too troublesomely luxuriant. From Wordnik.com. [Too Old for Dolls A Novel] Reference
A poor little boy, that his mother had animated daily to cry for relief so troublesomely, that at last the Ambassador would say, 'What noise is that at the gate of perpetual screaming?. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of Lady Fanshawe, Wife of Sir Richard Fanshawe, bart., ambassador from Charles the Second to the courts of Portugal and Madrid.] Reference
It did not enter troublesomely into her reflections that she had marked also the infectious quality of his smile and the clear brightness of his eye with an interest that was purely feminine. From Wordnik.com. [A Pagan of the Hills] Reference
And presently Martin began to cough a little, and then a little more, and finally so troublesomely that she was obliged to lay her profound thoughts aside, to attend to him with a little frown. From Wordnik.com. [Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard] Reference
Well, I am older and wiser now, less troublesomely introspective, and by no means so addicted to taking my internal structure to pieces, to find out how the motives and feelings work; but all the same, I hold strongly to diversity of gifts. From Wordnik.com. [Esther : a book for girls] Reference
He was in fact troublesomely persevering, and walked round and round the cart and over us as we sat drinking our tea, smelling at the casks, and trying to get his nose into the bung holes, and implored for relief as much as an animal could do so by looks. From Wordnik.com. [Expedition into Central Australia] Reference
A quiver, and that she coughed troublesomely sometimes: but I knew nothing of what these symptoms portended, and had no impulse to sympathize with her. From Wordnik.com. [Wuthering Heights] Reference
"Yes," said Mr. Egerton, "and how well she preserved the medium between being troublesomely pressing, or painfully negligent in asking her guests to eat!. From Wordnik.com. [Temper ; or, Domestic scenes : a tale in three volumes] Reference
So troublesomely sharp and knowing. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes] Reference
Anagram regained troublesomely wavefronts confirm. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Welcome, visitors from Air America Radio:] Reference
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