troublous
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Oaxaca, dotted with old Spanish churches and circled by yet older Zapotecan pyramids, was a troublous city.
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He is the one and only person that this country needs in these troublous times to cement the two great races in Canada into one loyal mass.
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A documentary on the troublous political awakening of northeastern Brazil.
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It was so troublous that eventually Chambermen handed the whole question over to the Board for further study, forwent passing any specific resolutions on non-domestic issues.
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In the troublous Middle Ages an heiress was as likely to be snapped up by some unsuitable suitor, more literally but with quite as much haste, as in a more cultured epoch.
From The Thirteenth Greatest of Centuries by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)