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Definitions for troubling
trou·bling
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Princeton's WordNet
distressing, distressful, disturbing, perturbing, troubling, worrisome, worryingadjective
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"
Wiktionary
troublingadjective
distressing, worrying
ChatGPT
troubling
Troubling refers to a situation, action, thought or feeling which causes worry, distress, anxiety or unease. It's often used to describe unsettling circumstances or problematic issues that require attention or resolution.
Webster Dictionary
Troubling
of Trouble
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of troubling in Chaldean Numerology is: 6
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of troubling in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1
Examples of troubling in a Sentence
It's troubling that prosecutors are now succumbing to political pressure to make summary arrests a few days after the incident rather than conduct a thorough investigation. It seems that everyone is entitled to due process these days but police officers.
What I see right now troubles me. I see a state of conflict between the foreign policy professionals and someone who says he's acting on behalf of the president but frankly I don't know if that is the case, it is troubling. It is deeply troubling.
Both Mexico and China seem to have been caught off guard, it's troubling. It does indicate a bit of a pattern on the U.S. side of presenting different agreements than their parties think they agreed to.
It's one after another after another, it's the same scenario again and again. It's very troubling.
Since Ferguson and the task force that we put together, we have seen too many instances of what appears to be police officers interacting with individuals, primarily African American, often poor, in ways that raise troubling questions, and it comes up, it seems, like once a week now or once every couple of weeks.
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