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Recent Examples of Synonyms for troublemaking
Adjective
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There’s nice Torrey Pines and naughty Torrey Pines.—
Bryce Miller,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
23 Jan. 2025 -
So Robert here, sitting in broad daylight smack bang in downtown Portland with four fentanyl pills on open display beside him, is now being slightly legally naughtier than during decriminalization.—
Matt Thompson,
SPIN,
3 Feb. 2025
Noun
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The history of disappointment and disillusionment behind such misbehavior cannot be disguised by the phony bonhomie of DIE solidarity.—
Armond White,
National Review,
7 Mar. 2025
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As the channel grew past two million subscribers, the parents came under more scrutiny for sharing intimate details about their children’s lives and their strict, some would say severe, punishments for misbehavior.—
Elizabeth Logan,
Glamour,
4 Mar. 2025
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The main purpose was to allow prospective employers — other federal agencies or local police — to check their backgrounds for misconduct.—
Martin Kaste,
NPR,
28 Feb. 2025
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Between fiscal years 2015 to 2019, agency inspectors general substantiated only 100 allegations of employee time and attendance misconduct or fraud out of a federal workforce of around 2.1 million employees (the GAO report did not include postal workers).—
Laura Doan,
CBS News,
27 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Two wily cousins take on the mob while also running around a giant film set?—
Kate Erbland,
IndieWire,
19 Feb. 2025
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The establishing scenes of Islands feel like something out of a James M. Cain novel — a wily noir, in this case drenched in subtropical heat and blinding sunshine.—
David Rooney,
The Hollywood Reporter,
16 Feb. 2025
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He was later convicted by a Rockland County Court of acting in a manner to injure a child and criminal mischief on June 3, 2024.—
Elizabeth Pritchett,
Fox News,
27 Feb. 2025
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On Friday, police arrested Tedford on a felony criminal mischief charge in connection to the case.—
Natalie Neysa Alund,
USA TODAY,
25 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Their other top highlight was Benoit getting in a fight, which may have been a crafty gambit to halt play while he was stuck on the ice during a long shift.—
Nick Ashbourne,
The Athletic,
7 Feb. 2025
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This moment is clearly designed to set up next season’s feuds, but Gay, the crafty ringleader of the bunch — practically a producer on the show — frames it as a necessary release for the paranoid group of friends.—
Kyndall Cunningham,
Vox,
7 Dec. 2018
Adjective
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Reading it, one is reminded, once again, that Trump is a politician who is cunning but semiliterate and ignorant.—
Eliot A. Cohen,
The Atlantic,
13 Feb. 2025
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Sign up The abusive couple were cunning, said Allison Pearson in The Daily Telegraph.—
The Week UK,
theweek,
21 Dec. 2024
Noun
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Mustard and vinegar provide the devilment for a flavorful bite, particularly when topped with a scattering of scallions and paprika.—
SAVEUR Editors,
Saveur,
5 Feb. 2025
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But even if truffles are beyond your pay grade, there is plenty of enjoyment to be had in the sheer devilment portrayed in this informative and appetizing book.—
Eugenia Bone,
WSJ,
10 July 2019
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“Troublemaking.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/troublemaking. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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