troublemaking
Example Sentences
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A false, artificial note, it seemed to me, though, to be sure, this sort of narrative troublemaking is endemic to television romance; we will see how that cadence resolves in the surely coming second season.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 1, 2026
Then there is 12-year-old Harper, the prodigy, who has no outlet for her intelligence except troublemaking.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 7, 2026
Dobler also embraced his troublemaking persona in a 1987 Miller Lite commercial by riling up by getting them to argue the beer’s “Tastes great/Less filling” tag line.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 13, 2023
The report causes you to think back to June 22, when Goodell focused on the Washington organization’s transformation as if to say that all of Snyder’s troublemaking was in the past.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 9, 2022
More, I think, than he loves his troublemaking son.
From "Linked" by Gordon Korman
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