troublemaking
Example Sentences
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Then there is 12-year-old Harper, the prodigy, who has no outlet for her intelligence except troublemaking.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 7, 2026
Dobler also embraced his troublemaking persona in a 1987 Miller Lite commercial by riling up by getting them to argue the beer’s “Tastes great/Less filling” tag line.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 13, 2023
The report causes you to think back to June 22, when Goodell focused on the Washington organization’s transformation as if to say that all of Snyder’s troublemaking was in the past.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 9, 2022
One came across as a quiet, reserved, eloquent, thoughtful force of nature; the other as a boisterous, querulous, troublemaking and sometimes thoughtless and mean force of nature.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 26, 2022
So only Otto freaked out when Old Petey began to fade, along with the troublemaking camera in his hands.
From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles
