troublesomeness
Example Sentences
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Did he ever guess that there was something else in her than this obstinacy, this troublesomeness with which she was forced to meet him?
From Delia Blanchflower by Mrs. Humphry Ward
If there is any thing amiss in your mind, not arising from the troublesomeness of your situation, it is childish and unmanly not to disclose it to me.
From Memoirs of the Life of the Rt. Hon. Richard Brinsley Sheridan — Volume 02 by Thomas Moore
German dulness and English affectation, have of late much multiplied among us the use of two of the most objectionable words that were ever coined by the troublesomeness of metaphysicians,—namely, "Objective" and "Subjective."
From Modern Painters. Vol. III (of V) Containing Part IV. Of Many Things by John Ruskin
Someone else would contend that the essence of a weed was its troublesomeness, but Socrates would counter this by asking them whether horseradish was not a far more troublesome thing in a garden than foxgloves.
From The Pleasures of Ignorance by Robert Lynd
German dulness, and English affectation, have of late much multiplied among us the use of two of the most objectionable words that were ever coined by the troublesomeness of metaphysicians—namely, ‘Objective’ and ‘Subjective’.
From English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century by Edmund David Jones
