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The old man . . . had no sooner slipped the packs from the horses than he began to rail at Hans, who stood looking on. \"You damned Dutchmen all be Tories, and worse,\" he cried." }, { "ref": "1950 October 9, “The Press: John Smith, Negro”, in Time:", "text": "Almost daily, U.S. newspapers are confronted by a nettlesome problem for which they have found no final answer. The problem: Should Negroes be identified as such in news stories?", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1989 December 29, Kenneth B. Noble, “Nigeria Enlists the Nettlesome Man in Short Pants”, in New York Times, retrieved 2011-01-20:", "text": "For nearly 40 years, Mr. Solarin, an unpretentious and intensely pugnacious man, has been an intellectual guru for Nigeria's disenchanted and disfranchised.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1995, Eugenia Price, Beauty from Ashes, →ISBN, page 146:", "text": "No one could act naturally with her. . . . She was sure she had never lived through days in which she, Anne Couper Fraser, forced those nearby to tiptoe around her nettlesome personality.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "2000 January 6, Jeremy Quittner, “The Lemonade Stand Circa 2000: A Boy, a Site, a $10 Million Lawsuit”, in BusinessWeek, retrieved 2011-01-20:", "text": "He's also delving into one of the most nettlesome legal issues on the Net — whether one party can turn another's trademark into a URL.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "Thorny; difficult to deal with, especially due to being complex or tricky." ], "id": "en-nettlesome-en-adj-qkmrgfLE", "links": [ [ "Thorny", "thorny" ], [ "complex", "complex" ], [ "tricky", "tricky" ] ], "qualifier": "problem", "raw_glosses": [ "(of a task, problem, etc.) Thorny; difficult to deal with, especially due to being complex or tricky." ], "raw_tags": [ "of a task" ], "tags": [ "usually" ] } ], "word": "nettlesome" }
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