HOW TO PRONOUNCE
nuisance
/ˈnuː.səns/
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What does nuisance mean?
noun
- A minor annoyance or inconvenience.
- A person or thing causing annoyance or inconvenience.
- Anything harmful or offensive to the community or to a member of it, for which a legal remedy exists.
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IPA pronunciation
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See this word in context.
He evidently looked upon a case as a case, and anxious relatives as a nuisance which must be treated with firmness.
As she grows older the value of her tears is less, and she is becoming that prime nuisance, the elderly scold.
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They were arrested, tried, convicted, imprisoned and fined for disturbing the "peace" of a common nuisance, and "malicious" destruction of rebel paraphernalia.
As in camping-parties in other parts of the world, the cooking is generally regarded as a nuisance to be shirked if possible.
To the proprietor this dusty chaff is a nuisance gladly given to anyone that will neatly sweep it up and truck it away.