(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.
Perplexity
Definition:
(n.) The quality or state of being perplexed or puzzled; complication; intricacy; entanglement; distraction of mind through doubt or difficulty; embarrassment; bewilderment; doubt.
Example Sentences:
(1) Perplexed, from being absorbed into some undateable future world governed by an advanced technology whose capacities have to be learned as one reads.
(2) The sergeant, listening in, was perplexed: "We obviously have, because I can hear you on the radio.
(3) Whether FcR-mediated signaling and receptor-mediated signaling involved in NK activity share specific biochemical intermediates is not known, but the involvement of tyrosine kinase function in the latter means of cytotoxicity may provide novel avenues for understanding the biochemical basis of this perplexing cellular function.
(4) The arteriogram correctly localized the precise site of hemorrhage in this perplexing case, and a complex surgical problem was simplified.
(5) The trauma-ready practice must also be cognizant of the some-times perplexing legal and insurance issues with regard to preventing and treating sport-related injuries.
(6) According to Lukyanov, the Kremlin is “perplexed” by Trump because it’s not clear what his priorities are nor whether he can work with Congress to achieve them.
(7) While treatment of a young woman with a dysgerminoma of 1 ovary is a matter of perplexity, we believe that a unilateral operation should be limited to those women who desire above all earthly things to retain their childbearing capacity.
(8) The most perplexing issues in pediatric dentistry today are related to the management of patients.
(9) "It is perplexing and preposterous to hear human rights complaints from the US, where torture and kidnapping are legal in the 21st century."
(10) It was a wretched goal to concede and the unfortunate truth for Mignolet is that moment reminded us why many Liverpool supporters are perplexed he has been awarded a new five-year contract.
(11) Instead, when we meet her at the beginning of the series, Nyborg is more concerned with moving house – presumably supplying viewers with shots of a variety of stylish new light fittings and perplexing floor plans to obsess over – than a political party with which she is increasingly disillusioned.
(12) I was [looks perplexed]: ‘Where’s the fabulous Madonna ?’ But it was still deeply interesting just to shake this tiny little hand, and say ‘You’re real’, because in the 80s, these people lived on plinths, they never came down to Earth.” This encounter made Patterson realise that celebrity per se didn’t exist.
(13) The implementation of library orientation and bibliographic instruction in health sciences centers presents some interesting as well as perplexing problems.
(14) It is now shown that the perplexity may be due to the possibility that the coenzyme (NAD) required for UDPG-D activity, may be acting as a substrate for a second dehydrogenase, namely xanthine dehydrogenase, which may utilize NAD as its substrate.
(15) Management of the patient with tinnitus is an extremely perplexing problem.
(16) Paul Salveson, author of a new book on the future of the railways, Railpolitik , is equally perplexed.
(17) Prematurity is one of the most perplexing problems in perinatal care.
(18) If chemical weapons were used, the timing of the attack is perplexing, the inspector said.
(19) Perplexing findings of cortical somatosensory evoked potentials (SEP's) for determining the central sulcus during a craniotomy are reported in a case of brain tumor.
(20) As cellular and molecular approaches combine with physiologic techniques, new information will be available to address the clinical issues of luteal dysfunction which perplex us all.