troublemaking
English
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edittroublemaking (comparative more troublemaking, superlative most troublemaking)
- Causing trouble.
- 2005 April 10, Christopher Hitchens, “André Malraux: One Man's Fate”, in New York Times Book Review:
- 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.
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editcausing trouble
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Noun
edittroublemaking (usually uncountable, plural troublemakings)
- 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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editcausing trouble; acting in a disruptive way
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