Nuisance
['njuːs(ə)ns] or ['nusns]
Definition
(noun.) (law) a broad legal concept including anything that disturbs the reasonable use of your property or endangers life and health or is offensive.
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Definition
(n.) That which annoys or gives trouble and vexation; that which is offensive or noxious.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Annoyance, plague, bane, infliction, curse, scourge, pest.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Offence, annoyance, plague, pest, trouble
ANT:Gratification, blessing, pleasure, delight, benefit
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Definition
n. that which annoys or hurts: that which troubles: that which is offensive.—n. Nū′isancer.
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Examples
- I was a nuisance, an incumbrance, and a pest. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- Government is then at once irrelevant and mischievous--a mere obstructive nuisance. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- It is a nuisance under one's very nose. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Again and again he crosses and obscures the disc I want always to see clear; ever and anon he renders me to you a mere bore and nuisance. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- I have just one word to say of the whole tribe; they are a nuisance. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- It's an awful nuisance in the bed at night. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- We have never been much trouble to a Consul before, but we have been a fearful nuisance to our Consul at Beirout. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Education has always been a considerable nuisance to the conservative intellect. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- These people are a great nuisance, box-keeper, and they want to make us believe that we have no right to sit in our own box! Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- The smoke and cinder nuisance with them has been solved. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Franking a letter for some fool or another: such a nuisance! Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Small cutters are a nuisance; hand-power cutters are out of the question. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- In this first engine the steam had been allowed to escape into the air with a loud, hissing noise, which frightened horses and cattle, and was generally regarded as a nuisance. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- But instead he made a fight for his empire; he was defeated by his recalcitrant subjects, caught, and shot as a public nuisance in 1867. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It was a nuisance to have them there but it was a comfort that they were no bigger. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- In this place I may as well jot down a chapter concerning those necessary nuisances, European guides. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- That they are not (or need not be, if properly constructed) nuisances to the public. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
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