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troubling

If something is troubling, it makes you feel worried or upset.

troubling

(= distressing, distressful, disturbing, perturbing, worrisome, worrying) causing distress or worry or anxiety distressing (or disturbing) news lived in heroic if something distressful isolation a disturbing amount of crime a revelation that was most perturbing a new and troubling thought in a particularly worrisome predicament a worrying situation a worrying time

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Simple sentences

I can't believe that that's what's really troubling Tom.
Bert's bisexuality was troubling Tom and excited Mary.
I can't believe that's what's really troubling Tom.
What secret grief is troubling you?
He was ashamed of troubling you.
My arm has been troubling me ever since my accident.
Is there something troubling you?

Movie subtitles

Doctor, there's something troubling Mina, something she won't tell us.
There's something troubling Eva, Doctor.
You see, the thing that's troubling me most, Millie. is that. I'm afraid the Jordan Line is gone.
Yes, it isn't a toothache that's troubling you today.
What's troubling you, my lady?
I'll not be troubling you with any further apologies.
We require not only to win the matches against Millfield and Sedbury but also, if it's not troubling you too much some fairly decent results in the examinations.
I assure you we'd not be troubling you if it were not necessary.
What is troubling you, Patsy?
There's one thing I do know. something is troubling you.
That's not what's troubling you.
What's troubling you, my dear?
What's troubling you. Trudy?
Whatever it is that's troubling you, put an end to it.
Nothing is troubling me.
And in what way is the princess a sham, if it's not troubling you too much?
Is that what's troubling you?
Lloyd, what's troubling you?
Is there something troubling you Mr Horton?
When your gout's troubling you, you're more respectful to me.
I didn't think the loss of an old sack worth troubling the police about.
Me? - Congratulations, sir. Aren't you ashamed of troubling your uncle?
And here I am, troubling you. - I'm so sorry. - Not at all.
Something's been troubling you for weeks.
My back's been troubling me too a little lately.
Something's troubling you, isn't it?
Yed, there id domething troubling me.
About ud there id nothing troubling me deeply at all.
No, not so much, and here I am, troubling you.
What's troubling you?
But he doesn't have your nervous little smile or your troubled and troubling innocent look.
In fact, I was there too. But it's precisely this coincidence that's troubling me.
Is that old man troubling you?
Yet, I can't figure it out and that's what's troubling me.
Mark, what's troubling you?

News and current affairs

As for fiscal policy, it is already in high gear and needs gradual tightening over several years, lest already troubling government-debt levels deteriorate even faster.
The consequences for American society are profound, troubling, and a warning to the world - though it probably comes far too late to be heeded.
But reality here is more complex and more troubling.
What makes the North Korea precedent particularly troubling is how much Iran has mimicked the regime in Pyongyang.
All this was troubling enough to Indian policymakers, who were being painfully reminded of the country's vulnerability to a determined neighbor.
A few years ago, I started hearing a troubling refrain: business leaders are feeling the type of public disdain once reserved for politicians.
There are other troubling borderline cases.
The current stalemate is all the more troubling in view of recent momentum on other disarmament tracks, including last year's successful NPT Review Conference and heightened attention to nuclear security.
What is troubling is the seeming permanence of its mission.
These individual developments are troubling.
Indeed, they threaten to become much more frequent and troubling.
What's Troubling India?
So I know that no theory, no amount of analysis, can free a politician from bouts of soul-searching, from troubling his or her conscience with questions about what is and what is not honest when confronting political choices.
Most troubling is the absence of open debate about these matters.
The current economic stalemate is troubling, because financial markets could react adversely, and because delays in addressing the fiscal deficit means a higher national debt.
At the Strasbourg summit, confidence in the future could have been strengthened if a couple of troubling issues had been discussed.
In this sense, perhaps the most troubling aspect of the interim deal concerns Iran's yet-to-be-opened Arak plant, which would offer a path to domestic plutonium production and weaponization.
One troubling aspect of this change is that the new leader may feel the need to resort to brute force more frequently in order to suppress popular resistance.
This raises troubling questions about the region's industrial trajectory.
Indonesia's case is different from the other two, and less extreme, but also troubling for the country's reputation.
These risks - most apparent in today's chaos-ridden Middle East - raise troubling questions about the security of nuclear assets in volatile countries everywhere.
Also troubling is the fact that the limit for microwave emission from mobile phones is 500 times lower in Switzerland and China than in the US.
Like its denials last year about deploying Chinese troops in Pakistani-held Kashmir to build strategic projects, China has demonstrated a troubling propensity to obscure the truth.
Given that the US and South Korea have the same assessment of the intelligence regarding North Korea's nuclear progress, not to mention South Korea's vulnerability, their failure to reach a practical agreement is troubling.
In Ukraine, human rights lawyers report the troubling case of a woman who was convicted for transmitting HIV to her husband even though he had used a condom, and despite the fact that he asked for the charges to be withdrawn.

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