"nettlesome" meaning in English

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          "text": "My old car is very nettlesome."
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          "text": "Mackenzie made himself a nettlesome burr under Crook's saddle, irritating the commanding general.",
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          "ref": "2011 April 16, Alexei Barrionuevo, “Fishermen in Amazon See a Rival in Dolphins”, in New York Times, retrieved 2011-01-20",
          "text": "Though the pink dolphins are protected by law, the fishermen see them as nettlesome competitors for the catches that feed their families.",
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        "Causing irritation, annoyance, or discomfort; bothersome, irksome."
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        "(of a person, thing, situation, etc.) Causing irritation, annoyance, or discomfort; bothersome, irksome."
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          "sense": "causing irritation",
          "word": "urticante"
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          "roman": "razdražajuščij",
          "sense": "causing irritation",
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          "word": "раздражающий"
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        {
          "text": "The task of proving Fermat’s “last” theorem remains nettlesome."
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          "text": "Be careful what you say to him; he's a nettlesome fellow."
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          "ref": "1832, Mary Russell Mitford, editor, Lights and Shadows of American Life, volume 2, page 241",
          "text": "[A]ll the strange oaths and imprecations found in a seaman's vocabulary were called into service by our nettlesome captain and his crew, and hurled without mercy on the winds and weather.",
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          "ref": "1904, Winston Churchill, The Crossing (2003 Kessinger reprint), p. 61",
          "text": "It so chanced that on the second day after my arrival a pack-train came along, guided by a nettlesome old man and a strong, black-haired lass of sixteen or thereabouts. 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."
        },
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          "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?",
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          "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.",
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          "ref": "1995, Eugenia Price, Beauty from Ashes, 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.",
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          "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.",
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        "Thorny; difficult to deal with, especially due to being complex or tricky."
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          "text": "Mackenzie made himself a nettlesome burr under Crook's saddle, irritating the commanding general.",
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        },
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          "text": "Though the pink dolphins are protected by law, the fishermen see them as nettlesome competitors for the catches that feed their families.",
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          "text": "The task of proving Fermat’s “last” theorem remains nettlesome."
        },
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          "text": "Be careful what you say to him; he's a nettlesome fellow."
        },
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          "text": "[A]ll the strange oaths and imprecations found in a seaman's vocabulary were called into service by our nettlesome captain and his crew, and hurled without mercy on the winds and weather.",
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          "text": "It so chanced that on the second day after my arrival a pack-train came along, guided by a nettlesome old man and a strong, black-haired lass of sixteen or thereabouts. 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?",
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        },
        {
          "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.",
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          "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.",
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          "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.",
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      "code": "it",
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      "sense": "causing irritation",
      "word": "urticante"
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