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Adjective

Causing distress or discomfort

Causing distress, sadness or anxiety

Exerting influence in an oppressive manner

Able or likely to cause harm or injury

To be irritating or upsetting, typically with repeated or unpleasant acts

Present participle for to cause someone inconvenience

Present participle for to put in the effort required to do something

Present participle for to be afflicted or incapacitated by

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Adjective

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Causing distress or discomfort

agonizing^US

agonising^UK

enough to try the patience of a saint

enough to drive you up the wall

bedevilling^UK

bedeviling^US

dishonoring^US

unfavorable^US

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“To stand in a glade in the Catskills is to realize what a deeply troubling trade-off that is.”

Adjective

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Causing distress, sadness or anxiety

agonizing^US

sombre^UK

somber^US

agonising^UK

humourless^UK

humorless^US

unfavorable^US

grueling^US

gruelling^UK

easier said than done

labored^US

laboured^UK

unsavory^US

unsavoury^UK

like getting blood out of a stone

demoralized^US

gray^US

grey^UK

demoralised^UK

meagre^UK

meager^US

ill-favored^US

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Adjective

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Exerting influence in an oppressive manner

Adjective

Able or likely to cause harm or injury

unfavorable^US

environmentally unfriendly

spoilt^UK

spoiled^US

sombre^UK

somber^US

imperilling^UK

imperiling^US

gray^US

grey^UK

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Verb

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To be irritating or upsetting, typically with repeated or unpleasant acts

bedeviling^US

bedevilling^UK

rubbing up the wrong way

driving to distraction

getting someone's goat

getting under your skin

getting up your nose

giving someone grief

giving someone the hump

hacking off

making your blood boil

driving round the bend

driving round the twist

getting someone's dander up

getting your back up

hacking you off

heating up

making someone see red

getting on your nerves

giving someone the pip

putting your back up

hitting where one lives

agonizing^US

agonising^UK

causing discomfort to

victimizing^US

victimising^UK

getting on one's nerves

terrorizing^US

terrorising^UK

rubbing the wrong way

bending someone's ear

tantalizing^US

tantalising^UK

breathing down someone's neck

rankling with

throwing off balance

making things hot for someone

causing trouble to

eating at

discriminating against

tyrannizing^US

driving you up the wall

getting your dander up

taking the piss out of

tyrannising^UK

putting someone's nose out of joint

making somebody's hackles rise

satirizing^US

criticizing^US

making someone fed up

making it hot for someone

having on

keying up

giving the business

hurting somebody's feelings

rattling someone's cage

rattling one's cage

laughing at

putting someone off their stroke

keeping complaining to

putting up to

rubbing you up the wrong way

criticising^UK

ruffling one's feathers

causing someone to lose their composure

getting across someone

satirising^UK

getting up someone's nose

getting your hackles up

running up the wrong way

pushing someon's buttons

possessing

jeering

getting in the hair of

getting on the nerves of

arousing hostility in

upsetting the applecart

breaking the heart of

bringing pressure to bear on

caviling^US

sending into a rage

taking a rise out of

starting

getting a rise out of

cavilling^UK

belabouring^UK

trying the patience of

searching high heaven

sticking in one's craw

setting one's teeth on edge

demonizing^US

causing resentment to

playing cat and mouse

putting through wringer

rubbing salt in wound

causing to panic

dominating

stacking the deck

demonising^UK

having your knife into

enslaving

tyrannizing over

causing anguish

causing someone distress

causing pain

dissing

tiring out

making severe demands on

jumping on one's case

putting the squeeze on

belaboring^US

busting someone's balls

dishonoring^US

showing ill will towards

doing an injustice to

ill-using

giving no quarter

stepping on the toes of

taking the heart out of

causing to feel mental strain

causing to feel emotional strain

pulling someone's leg

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“The upcoming exam and a fear of failure would trouble Sally a great deal.”

Verb

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Present participle for to cause someone inconvenience

causing inconvenience to

imposing on

imposing upon

creating difficulties for

putting out

“I hate to trouble you, but could I borrow your lawnmower for a couple of hours?”

Verb

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Present participle for to put in the effort required to do something

going to the effort of

“Which of us would trouble to water the city streets with the sweat of our honest brows?”

Verb

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Present participle for to be afflicted or incapacitated by

ailing with

suffering from

“He looked paler and sweatier than usual, and one leg seemed to trouble him a bit.”

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