/?net?.l.s?m/annoying, andcausingproblemsordifficulties:恼人的,气人的;使不愉快的Heattemptedtotacklethe nettlesomeissueofpoliceandcommunityrelations.他试图解决警察和社区关系这个棘手的问题。SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrasesAnnoying
accursed
aggravating
annoying
annoyingly
ball-ache
damnable
damnably
exasperating
exasperatingly
gadfly
irritating
irritatingly
limit
maddening
mither
sick-making
sickening
sickeningly
spiteful
stupid
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Examplesofnettlesome
nettlesomeUnlike the other three, the labor movement was a fierce adversary rather than anettlesomefriend.From theCambridge English CorpusUnlike the other three, the labor movement was a fierce adversary rather than anettlesomefriend.From theCambridge English CorpusThese examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.#https://dictionary.cambridge.org//dictionary/english/nettlesome##