Troublemaking
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈtɹʌb(ə)lmeɪkɪŋ/ · Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Troublemaking is an adjective meaning Causing trouble.
Meaning
Causing trouble.
More Meanings
- Causing trouble; acting in a disruptive way
Example Sentences
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.
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.
Finding the words, the expressions, the way of living that could be the trouble-making inside this closed society, that's our main goal. It's mine anyway. It's the only way to be open, to be conscious of not being just an object, of not being only acted upon, but doing things by yourself.
Word Forms
- troublemakings
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include problem, shit-stirring, mischievous, mischiefmaking, disruptive, triggery.
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