troublemaking

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Etymology

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From trouble +‎ making.

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Adjective

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troublemaking (comparative more troublemaking, superlative most troublemaking)

  1. 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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Noun

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troublemaking (usually uncountable, plural troublemakings)

  1. 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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