troubling
IPA: trˈʌbʌɫɪŋ
noun
- The infliction of trouble or distress.
adjective
- distressing, worrying
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Examples of "troubling" in Sentences
- Equally troubling is the fact that this bill singles out the Roman Catholic Church.
- Whats even more troubling is the fact that any pictures were on there to begin with.
- One of Perry's rivals, businessman Herman Cain, called the use of the name troubling.
- Lawsky says the agreements go a long way to clean up what he calls troubling practices in the mortgage industry.
- This magazine's behind the curveJust as Beautiful – "The new lifestyle magazine for curvy women" – is troubling from the start.
- Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton sharply criticized what she called "troubling practices" before and during the vote in
- He was already preparing for a possible war with Iraq when he got what he called the troubling news about North Korea's nuclear program.
- In June 2010, I wrote in this space about a book, "The New Jim Crow," by Michelle Alexander, which I called a "troubling and profoundly necessary" work.
- What's most troubling is not that this $65 tome may be on the wine shelf at Borders, but that it is the primary text book for teaching young chefs and sommeliers about the world of wine.
- Finn had acknowledged a month earlier that he had known about suspected pornographic images of children on Ratigan's computer since December, when a technician found hundreds of what he called "troubling images" on the priest's laptop.
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