(a.) Vexatious; causing bother; causing trouble or perplexity; troublesome.
Example Sentences:
(1) Asked point blank if Mueller should recuse himself from the Russia investigation, Trump said: “Well, he’s very, very good friends with Comey, which is very bothersome.
(2) Requirements for intranasal douching with saline have varied; however, we have had no problems with bothersome crusting following b.i.d.
(3) The most bothersome feature of Bannon’s talk is the fact that a Catholic group at the Vatican responded to it with enthusiasm.
(4) Headache was the only bothersome side-effect reported.
(5) Had the Mayans been skilled in predicting the future, they might have foreseen that a week already chock-full with jobs undone, frantic present buying and horrific office parties was hardly the best time to trouble people with the bothersome chore of preparing for the apocalypse.
(6) Of these 22, 13 (57%) found the premonitory urges more bothersome than the tics themselves, and 12 (55%) thought the premonitory urges enhanced their ability to suppress tics.
(7) Of all patients 11% experienced headache or other bothersome symptoms for more than three days following myelography.
(8) Forty-one patients rates the relative bothersomeness of symptoms of schizophrenia and side effects of neuroleptics.
(9) A comparison of nicergoline versus placebo in the frequencies of changes in each item of the SCAG showed also a significant difference at 6 months, the percent of patients displaying an improvement by at least 2 points ranging from 13.5 (bothersome) to 30.2 (disorientation) in nicergoline group, against 4.1 (self-care) to 14.3 (fatigue) in placebo group.
(10) Three quarters of the men had used the condom and found it bothersome.
(11) The depressed mothers perceived their infants as more difficult to care for and more bothersome than did the nondepressed mothers, but did not attribute these difficulties to the temperament of their infants.
(12) In every case, the bothersome side effects of the medication, which led to use of the alternative method of administration, specially the gastro-intestinal problems, subsided.
(13) The last and most bothersome category, distinguished by its symptoms of pruritus and discharge, includes the most common types of vulvovaginitis.
(14) Proximal gastric resection incurs bothersome sequelae and should, therefore, be avoided.
(15) While all of them reported noisy environments to be bothersome, the fulltime users did not turn off their stimulators in noise.
(16) The impact of this hospitalization on our family is presented, including: 1) normal but bothersome behavioral changes in the patient and his sibling; 2) the effects of excessive parental stress; 3) the development of parental coping strategies; and 4) stresses and coping strategies specific to a physician-father.
(17) Both drugs were effective in managing target behaviors, which included hostility, uncooperativeness, bothersomeness, emotional lability, and irritability.
(18) Side effects associated with larger doses of guanethidine employed in severe hypertension were absent or only slightly bothersome.
(19) Whereas relief of bothersome symptoms of ventricular dysrhythmias may improve the patient's return to a more active role in society, one must be aware, at the same time, that these antidysrhythmics have adverse effects of their own that may significantly limit their effectiveness.
(20) Thirteen percent of the patients had bothersome pain either during or after the biopsy.
Menace
Definition:
(n.) The show of an intention to inflict evil; a threat or threatening; indication of a probable evil or catastrophe to come.
(n.) To express or show an intention to inflict, or to hold out a prospect of inflicting, evil or injury upon; to threaten; -- usually followed by with before the harm threatened; as, to menace a country with war.
(n.) To threaten, as an evil to be inflicted.
(v. i.) To act in threatening manner; to wear a threatening aspect.
Example Sentences:
(1) The menace we’re facing – and I say we, because no one is spared – is embodied by the hooded men who are ravaging the cradle of civilization.
(2) But when in mid-October two of the artists received death threats, the menaces were widely reported and rekindled debate, prompting vicious, anti-Muslim comments on Danish talk shows.
(3) We will together face the terrorist menace,” said Jean-Claude Juncker , president of the European commission, whose headquarters lie just a few hundred metres from the metro.
(4) Aneurysmal occlusion with an extrafocal shunt can allow one-stage surgery when aneurysm and neoplasm are equally menacing.
(5) It is a gripping read from the opening, with the Ku Klux Klan menacing his pregnant mother, through to the troubled last months of his life: we follow Malcolm Little, common thief, on his journey to Malcolm X , inspirational leader.
(6) After her release, she confirmed that she had been pressured by threats and menaces to confess to criminal acts that she had never perpetrated.
(7) Although chronic total coronary occlusions are no clinical menace in contrast to stenoses, they frequently deserve revascularization and are the reason to select bypass surgery over angioplasty.
(8) Zimmerman was charged with an offence of sending by public communication network an offensive, indecent, obscene, menacing message or matter.
(9) The former Conservative chief whip Andrew Mitchell was a Jekyll and Hyde character who employed a mixture of charm and menace, his libel trial against the Sun newspaper over the Plebgate affair heard.
(10) The family member was one of five men executed by Isis in the terror group’s latest propaganda video, shot in the head as they submitted to their tormentors while a new English-speaking frontman made menacing threats to Britain.
(11) The bill should authorize stiff fines for unruly dog behavior – to include noise violations from sustained barking and lunging – and misdemeanor criminal penalties for menacing waitstaff and patrons.
(12) Maged understands better than most the menace of coastal erosion, which is steadily ingesting the edge of Egypt in some places at an astonishing rate of almost 100m a year.
(13) Now the focus seems to be on new geographic menaces rather than new technological ones.
(14) Authorities were preparing for a "worst-case scenario" on Thursday as a blaze dubbed the "Springs fire" menaced the 101 freeway along Camarillo, a city in Ventura County, and raced towards the coast.
(15) But if you do, yet still allow your editors to use inciteful over insightful language, then far from standing up for Britain, you're a menace against all things that make it great.
(16) The club’s new president, Bruno de Carvalho, has denounced as a “menace” and “monster” the funds to whom majority stakes in almost the club’s entire squad were sold before he was elected in March 2013 and he vowed to end the practice.
(17) 2.32pm BST Blimey... Tom Williams (@tomwfootball) Menacing sight en route to the Maracanã.
(18) It's an extraordinary, sprawling world, powered by magic and steampunk technology, populated by humans, cactus-people, insectoid, amphibian and avian races, dripping with myths and monsters and menaced by repressive regimes.
(19) For days, BBC reporters on the spot repeated the words panic, threat and menace by the hour.
(20) (A little later, I watch director Foley ask a genially menacing professor Capaldi to lift, and lift, and lift, the needle from a record in, I think it was, 12 different ways, to get it just so; I think "stickler" is fair.)