troublemaking
nounEtymology From trouble + making.
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Usually Causing trouble; acting in a disruptive way
- Finding the words, the expressions, the way of living that could be the trouble-making inside this closed society, that's our main goal. It's mine anyway. It's the only way to be open, to be conscious of not being just an object, of not being only acted upon, but doing things by yourself.1974 February 2, John Collis, Guy Hocquenghem, Joe Interrante, Mike Riegle, Charley Shively, Raphael Shively, Lionel Soukaz, “The Homosexual Century: In Search of Gay Memory”, in Gay Community News, volume 1, number 32, page 9:
- The spunky kindergartener (first grader in more recent volumes) is prone to troublemaking, often calls people names and isn’t averse to talking back to her teachers.2007 July 26, Anna Jane Grossman, “Is Junie B. Jones Talking Trash?”, in New York Times:
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