Troublemaking

Pronunciation

• UK IPA: /ˈtɹʌb(É™)lmeɪkɪŋ/

Origin

From trouble + making.

Full definition of troublemaking

Adjective

1. Causing trouble.
• 2005, Christopher Hitchens, "André Malraux: One Man's Fate", New York Times Book Review, 10 Apr 2005: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.

Noun

1. Causing trouble; acting in a disruptive way
• 2007, July 26, Anna Jane Grossman, Is Junie B. Jones Talking Trash?, 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.

Related terms

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