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Nettlesome

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

adj. Causing irritation or distress; vexatious.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

adj. Causing irritation, annoyance, or discomfort; bothersome, irksome.

adj. Thorny; difficult to deal with, especially due to being complex or tricky.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. same as irritating, 1.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

adj. causing irritation or annoyance

adj. easily irritated or annoyed

Word Usage

"In his autobiography, "Tales Out of School," he described the central board of education as a "nettlesome" body whose "time-wasting intrusions and demands" made his job impossible."

Equivalent

disagreeable ill-natured

Variant

irritating

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

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Same Context

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