Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Troublesome; annoying; harassing.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Troublesome; vexatious.
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- adjective obsolete
troublesome ;vexatious
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Examples
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To her nothing already then and thenceforward was anyway able to be molestful for this chiefly felt all citizens except with proliferent mothers prosperity at all not to can be and as they had received eternity gods mortals generation to befit them her beholding, when the case was so hoving itself, parturient in vehicle thereward carrying desire immense among all one another was impelling on of her to be received into that domicile.
Ulysses 2003
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To her nothing already then and thenceforward was anyway able to be molestful for this chiefly felt all citizens except with proliferent mothers prosperity at all not to can be and as they had received eternity gods mortals generation to befit them her beholding, when the case was so hoving itself, parturient in vehicle thereward carrying desire immense among all one another was impelling on of her to be received into that domicile.
Ulysses James Joyce 1911
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