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nuisance::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | pain, pain in the neck |
| Type of | disagreeable person, unpleasant person |
nuisance::noun | Spocien Dictionary
(law) a broad legal concept including anything that disturbs the reasonable use of your property or endangers life and health or is offensive
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | botheration, infliction, annoyance, pain, pain in the ass, pain in the neck, bother |
| Has types | common nuisance, attractive nuisance, public nuisance, abatable nuisance, private nuisance, mixed nuisance |
Examples of nuisance
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The ankle isn't a long-term problem for Cassity, but right now, it's a nuisance.
From the stltoday.com
Now, it's just a nuisance matter for the town clerk's office to manage, he said.
From the newsday.com
Lowery also was held on suspicion of trespassing and creating a public nuisance.
From the thenewstribune.com
I can't wait until the City of Santa Monica closes that cancer-causing nuisance.
From the latimes.com
Stray cats and dogs can get into trash cans, gardens and become a real nuisance.
From the news-journalonline.com
Lagergren is also charged with one misdemeanor count of being a public nuisance.
From the ocregister.com
He has a responsibility to maintain them so that they are not a nuisance to you.
From the dailyherald.com
Dead Zygnema clumps become a nuisance when they wash onto beaches and decompose.
From the sciencedaily.com
He's got a really good work rate, so he's more of a nuisance than anything else.
From the sportsillustrated.cnn.com
- (law) a broad legal concept including anything that disturbs the reasonable use of your property or endangers life and health or is offensive
- Pain: a bothersome annoying person; "that kid is a terrible pain"
- Nuisance (also spelled nocence, through Fr. noisance, nuisance, from Lat. nocere, "to hurt") is a common law tort. It means that which causes offence, annoyance, trouble or injury. A nuisance can be either public (also "common") or private. A public nuisance was defined by English scholar Sir J. ...
- The Nuisance is a 1921 silent comedy film featuring Oliver Hardy.
- A minor annoyance or inconvenience; A person or thing causing annoyance or inconvenience; Anything harmful or offensive to the community or to a member of it, for which a legal remedy exists
- Conduct or activity which results in an actual physical interference with another person's reasonable use or enjoyment of his property for any lawful purpose.
- A use of property that interferes with the quiet enjoyment by others of their properties. An abatement action can be taken to stop (abate) the nuisance.
- Something that interferes with the use of property by being irritating, offensive, obstructive or dangerous. Nuisances include a wide range of conditions, everything from a chemical plant's noxious odors to a neighbor's dog barking. ...
- In law, this refers to a class of wrong that arises out of unreasonable, unwarranted or unlawful use by a person of his own property, whether that property be real or personal or from his own improper, indecent or unlawful personal conduct and producing an annoyance, inconvenience, discomfort or ...
