Nuisance
noun
Anything or anyone that annoys or bothers you, making you feel uncomfortable.
The loud music from the neighbor's house is a real nuisance at night.
Often appears as...
- a real nuisance
- a bit of a nuisance
noun
In law, a person or thing causing trouble or harm that is unfair.
They took their neighbor to court for causing a nuisance by playing loud music at night.
Often appears as...
- public nuisance
- private nuisance
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Formal
noun
Anything or anyone that annoys or bothers you, making you feel uncomfortable.
The loud music from the neighbor's house is a real nuisance at night.
Often appears as...
- a real nuisance
- a bit of a nuisance
noun
In law, a person or thing causing trouble or harm that is unfair.
They took their neighbor to court for causing a nuisance by playing loud music at night.
Often appears as...
- public nuisance
- private nuisance
Usage tips
Formal
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Frequency Matters
The more often something happens, the more likely it is to be called a nuisance.
His constant lateness to meetings has become a nuisance.
Pro Tip 2/3Intensity Varies
Nuisance can describe a range from slightly annoying to extremely bothersome situations.
The flickering streetlight was a mild nuisance compared to the power outage.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Always Serious
Sometimes 'nuisance' is used lightly or humorously to describe inconveniences.
Your playful puppy is a cute nuisance.
Pro Tip 1/3Frequency Matters
The more often something happens, the more likely it is to be called a nuisance.
His constant lateness to meetings has become a nuisance.
Pro Tip 2/3Intensity Varies
Nuisance can describe a range from slightly annoying to extremely bothersome situations.
The flickering streetlight was a mild nuisance compared to the power outage.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Always Serious
Sometimes 'nuisance' is used lightly or humorously to describe inconveniences.
Your playful puppy is a cute nuisance.
Pro Tip 1/3Frequency Matters
The more often something happens, the more likely it is to be called a nuisance.
His constant lateness to meetings has become a nuisance.
Pro Tip 2/3Intensity Varies
Nuisance can describe a range from slightly annoying to extremely bothersome situations.
The flickering streetlight was a mild nuisance compared to the power outage.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Always Serious
Sometimes 'nuisance' is used lightly or humorously to describe inconveniences.
Your playful puppy is a cute nuisance.
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Steven Pinker: What our...
if you issue a veiled bribe, then the dishonest officer could interpret it as a bribe, in which case you get the payoff of going free. The honest officer can't hold you to it as being a bribe, and therefore, you get the nuisance of the traffic ticket. So you get the best of both worlds.
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Dian Fossey: Secrets in...
for these animals she was someone who liked being alone a the gelati type attitude towards protecting gorillas he had made enemies with alarm assumptions by the way was poachers houses nuisance man it was there at her camp this was a bizarre I think there's some kind on the
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Why we need to imagine...
But then, like everything else, we got used to it. Now, what if you could see the world through its eyes? See how it constantly logs every resident of our neighborhood; logging the kids who play football in the no-ballgame area and marking them as statutory nuisances.
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How does your immune...
A mosquito lands on your arm, injects its chemicals into your skin, and begins to feed. You wouldn’t even know it was there, if not for the red lump that appears, accompanied by a telltale itch. It’s a nuisance, but that bump is an important signal
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Mammoths resurrected and...
Science and engineers basically define the world in interesting ways. If all the politicians disappeared one week, it would be ... a nuisance. But if all the scientists and engineers disappeared one week, it would be way more than a nuisance.
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Why This Sailboat Brings...
features in our landscape are nuisances that there's something that has to be bridged over or tunneled under or driven around and to revisit the possibilities of these waterways to support human existence I think it's part of who we
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Rodent Roommates PIPE...
Here surrounded by buildings, there are still a lot of places for wildlife, like nuisance rodents, to find a perfect place to live and make a living.
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Where are the women...
along with other people so in other words a troublemaking nuisance yet every single thing we were using were invented by someone who we'd completely
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Top 5 Cart Friends (and...
stray shopping cards aren't the biggest problem in the world but they are a nuisance they roll around the parking
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Oviraptorid Defends Her...
Smaller Oviraptors are no more than a nuisance. Larger predators are a different story.
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Steven Pinker: What our...
if you issue a veiled bribe, then the dishonest officer could interpret it as a bribe, in which case you get the payoff of going free. The honest officer can't hold you to it as being a bribe, and therefore, you get the nuisance of the traffic ticket. So you get the best of both worlds.
Video examples
Dian Fossey: Secrets in...
for these animals she was someone who liked being alone a the gelati type attitude towards protecting gorillas he had made enemies with alarm assumptions by the way was poachers houses nuisance man it was there at her camp this was a bizarre I think there's some kind on the
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Why we need to imagine...
But then, like everything else, we got used to it. Now, what if you could see the world through its eyes? See how it constantly logs every resident of our neighborhood; logging the kids who play football in the no-ballgame area and marking them as statutory nuisances.
Video examples
How does your immune...
A mosquito lands on your arm, injects its chemicals into your skin, and begins to feed. You wouldn’t even know it was there, if not for the red lump that appears, accompanied by a telltale itch. It’s a nuisance, but that bump is an important signal
Video examples
Mammoths resurrected and...
Science and engineers basically define the world in interesting ways. If all the politicians disappeared one week, it would be ... a nuisance. But if all the scientists and engineers disappeared one week, it would be way more than a nuisance.
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Why This Sailboat Brings...
features in our landscape are nuisances that there's something that has to be bridged over or tunneled under or driven around and to revisit the possibilities of these waterways to support human existence I think it's part of who we
Video examples
Rodent Roommates PIPE...
Here surrounded by buildings, there are still a lot of places for wildlife, like nuisance rodents, to find a perfect place to live and make a living.
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Where are the women...
along with other people so in other words a troublemaking nuisance yet every single thing we were using were invented by someone who we'd completely
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Top 5 Cart Friends (and...
stray shopping cards aren't the biggest problem in the world but they are a nuisance they roll around the parking
Video examples
Oviraptorid Defends Her...
Smaller Oviraptors are no more than a nuisance. Larger predators are a different story.
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Cecile Richards
American Activist
I would be excited if we could reimagine workplaces that start from a premise that women are going to be a central part: Women are going to bear children, people are going to raise those children, and it's not going to be a nuisance - it's actually going to be understood as part of the deal.
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John Kennedy
American Lawyer
Part of the problem is there are people in Washington, D.C. in positions of power to whom the border is just a nuisance, and I think some of them believe that illegal immigration is a moral good. It is not. It undermines legal immigration.
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E. M. Forster
English Novelist
We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.
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Zbigniew Brzezinski
American Politician
Yes, ISIS is a threat. It's more than a nuisance. It's also in many respects criminal violence. But it isn't, in my view, a central strategic issue facing humanity.
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Baruch Spinoza
Dutch Philosopher
It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance.
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Frank Carson
Irish Comedian
So I rang up British Telecom, I said 'I want to report a nuisance caller', he said 'Not you again'.
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Dorothy L. Sayers
British Author
A human being must have occupation, of he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.
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Charles Olson
American Poet
When will government cease being a nuisance to everybody?
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P. J. O'Rourke
American Comedian
Liberals consider people to be nuisances.
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Paul Erdos
Hungarian Mathematician
Property is a nuisance.
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Cecile Richards
American Activist
I would be excited if we could reimagine workplaces that start from a premise that women are going to be a central part: Women are going to bear children, people are going to raise those children, and it's not going to be a nuisance - it's actually going to be understood as part of the deal.
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John Kennedy
American Lawyer
Part of the problem is there are people in Washington, D.C. in positions of power to whom the border is just a nuisance, and I think some of them believe that illegal immigration is a moral good. It is not. It undermines legal immigration.
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E. M. Forster
English Novelist
We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.
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Zbigniew Brzezinski
American Politician
Yes, ISIS is a threat. It's more than a nuisance. It's also in many respects criminal violence. But it isn't, in my view, a central strategic issue facing humanity.
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Baruch Spinoza
Dutch Philosopher
It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance.
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Frank Carson
Irish Comedian
So I rang up British Telecom, I said 'I want to report a nuisance caller', he said 'Not you again'.
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Dorothy L. Sayers
British Author
A human being must have occupation, of he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.
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Charles Olson
American Poet
When will government cease being a nuisance to everybody?
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P. J. O'Rourke
American Comedian
Liberals consider people to be nuisances.
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Paul Erdos
Hungarian Mathematician
Property is a nuisance.
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