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Nuisance

noun

(law) a broad legal concept including anything that disturbs the reasonable use of your property or endangers life and health or is offensive.

A bothersome annoying person. Synonyms: pain, pain in the neck.

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"Nuisance" Quotes from Famous Books

... that. One of those rascally sailor thieves, rather; not a four-footed beast is safe from them. What a nuisance it is! I suppose I must walk ...

— The Thin Red Line; and Blue Blood • Arthur Griffiths

... under favour of them that go shares, and make rent of 'em—but I'd never inform again' 'em. And, after all, if the truth was known, and my Lord Clonbrony should be informed against, and presented, for it's his neglect is the bottom of the nuisance—' ...

— The Absentee • Maria Edgeworth

... with considerable warmth. Crumpet did the same, though with less cordiality in his manner. It was plain (and plainer to none than Deerfoot) that he was one of that numerous class of frontiersmen who regard the American Indian as an unmitigated nuisance, which, so far as possible, every white man should do his utmost to abate. He had been engaged in more than one desperate encounter with them and his hatred was of the most ferocious nature. It was not to be expected, however, that his detestation would show itself without regard to time and place. ...

— Camp-fire and Wigwam • Edward Sylvester Ellis

... Betty very ill with scarlet-fever caught from some poor children mother nursed when they fell sick, living over a cellar where pigs had been kept. The landlord (a deacon) would not clean the place till mother threatened to sue him for allowing a nuisance. Too late to save two of the poor babies or Lizzie and May ...

— Stories of Achievement, Volume IV (of 6) - Authors and Journalists • Various

... there is no night for two or three months, is that the better houses never have shutters, and seldom blinds, at the windows; therefore the sun streams in undisturbed; and when a room has four windows, as happened to us at Sordavala, the light of day becomes a positive nuisance, and a few green calico blinds an absolute godsend; indeed, almost as essential as the oil of cloves or lavender or the ammonia bottle for gnat bites, or the mosquito head-nets, if one sleeps with ...

— Through Finland in Carts • Ethel Brilliana Alec-Tweedie

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