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problemsome en · ADJ

Etymology

From problem + -some.

Meanings

1. Characterised or marked by problems
   • In an interview, he noted that the long delay in filling the post of Director of Central Intelligence was "especially problemsome." 2001, William Safire, Let a Simile be Your Umbrella:
   • “[...] We find our meaning in different ways and had rather remain here poor than there poor with our problemsome families dispersed across the face of the earth instead of at home, nearby, for us to tend to.” 2005, J J Garrett, The Quixote Imbroglio: That Which Remains of the Burden of Honor:
   • They are legally mandated to intrude and imprison “the problemsome” on the grounds of dangerousness, whether “the problemsome” are truly dangerous or not and despite the fact that psychiatry's own research and amicus briefs indicate that psychiatrists have no reliability whatever in predicting dangerousness. 1992, Bonnie Burstow, Radical Feminist Therapy: Working in the Context of Violence:

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