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troublemaking

UK/ˈtɹʌb(ə)lmeɪkɪŋ/

troublemaking adjective: causing trouble.

Adjective

troublemaking (comparative more troublemaking, superlative most troublemaking)

  1. Causing trouble.
    • 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.2005 April 10, Christopher Hitchens, “André Malraux: One Man's Fate”, in New York Times Book Review

Noun

troublemaking (usually uncountable, plural troublemakings)

  1. (usually) Causing trouble; acting in a disruptive way
    • 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.1974 February 2, John Collis, Guy Hocquenghem, Joe Interrante, Mike Riegle, Charley Shively, Raphael Shively, Lionel Soukaz, “The Homosexual Century: In Search of Gay Memory”, in Gay Community News...
    • 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.2007 July 26, Anna Jane Grossman, “Is Junie B. Jones Talking Trash?”, in New York Times

Forms of troublemaking

Adjective
comparativemore troublemaking
superlativemost troublemaking
Noun
pluraltroublemakings

Origin of troublemaking

From trouble + making.

Questions about troublemaking

What does troublemaking mean?
Troublemaking means causing trouble.
What part of speech is troublemaking?
Troublemaking can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce troublemaking?
Troublemaking is pronounced /ˈtɹʌb(ə)lmeɪkɪŋ/ (UK).

Words near troublemaking in the dictionary

  1. Troublefields
  2. troublefree
  3. troubleless
  4. troublemaker
  5. troublemakers
  6. troublemaking
  7. troublemakings
  8. troublement
  9. troublements
  10. troublemonger
  11. troublemongers

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