as in disturbing
causing worry or anxiety
the troublesome news that there will be more cuts in the school budget
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Recent Examples of troublesome
Steam is the gentlest solution for delicate or troublesome fabrics.
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Bestreviews, Chicago Tribune, 23 May 2025
Residential housing mobility, currently at historic lows, signals the troublesome possibility of less economic mobility for society.
—Tom Rogers, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Apr. 2025
What makes these situations even more troublesome is that McDonald said that there may be no access to Wi-Fi where travelers are vacationing, especially after being abducted.
—Stepheny Price, FOXNews.com, 5 June 2025
The request to Congress is seen as unlikely to meaningfully change the troublesome increase in the U.S. national debt.
—Arkansas Online, 4 June 2025
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Bestreviews, Chicago Tribune, 23 May 2025
Residential housing mobility, currently at historic lows, signals the troublesome possibility of less economic mobility for society.
—Tom Rogers, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Apr. 2025
What makes these situations even more troublesome is that McDonald said that there may be no access to Wi-Fi where travelers are vacationing, especially after being abducted.
—Stepheny Price, FOXNews.com, 5 June 2025
The request to Congress is seen as unlikely to meaningfully change the troublesome increase in the U.S. national debt.
—Arkansas Online, 4 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for troublesome
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Content moderators are workers who remove disturbing content from social media—data which is often then used to train AI systems like ChatGPT or Facebook’s algorithms.—
Billy Perrigo,
Time,
19 June 2025
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That still wasn’t as disturbing as the sight of Solène washing her feet in the crew mess sink.—
Rafaela Bassili,
Vulture,
17 June 2025
Adjective
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The other shoe dropped with an unsettling thud recently when White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt openly gay-bashed in defense of her controversial boss.—
Louis Balsamo,
Baltimore Sun,
25 June 2025
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Some messages were sweet, others were steamy, and some were even unsettling.—
Cathy Hackl,
Forbes.com,
23 June 2025
Adjective
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The research community has long warned of troubling links to chronic disease, especially for children, and have called for more government oversight of the plastic, fossil fuel and chemical industries.—
Will Stone,
NPR,
18 June 2025
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Experts said state health exchanges’ use of advertising trackers was troubling if not entirely surprising.—
Colin Lecher,
USA Today,
18 June 2025
Adjective
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Perhaps not helping so much: The set’s early reviews, which have been mostly fairly nasty in their dismissals of the set.—
Andrew Unterberger,
Billboard,
25 June 2025
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Again there are two levels here, and each radically altered the color profile of the onscreen visuals – with the high setting giving everything a nasty green hue.—
Paul Ridden
June 25,
New Atlas,
25 June 2025
Adjective
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Which isn’t to say that the film isn’t frightening.—
Aaron Couch,
HollywoodReporter,
18 June 2025
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The fumes are certainly easier to ignore or deny than the visceral, immediate violence of serial murder—which is much rarer, and yet, for many, much more frightening.—
Sarah Weinman,
The Atlantic,
18 June 2025
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“Troublesome.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/troublesome. Accessed 30 Jun. 2025.
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