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• My poison ivy rash is very nettlesome.
• Mackenzie made himself a nettlesome burr under Crook's saddle, irritating the commanding general.
• Though the pink dolphins are protected by law, the fishermen see them as nettlesome competitors for the catches that feed their families.
• The task of proving Fermat’s “last” theorem remains nettlesome.
• Be careful what you say to him; he's a nettlesome fellow.
• [A]ll the strange oaths and imprecations found in a seaman's vocabulary were called into service by our nettlesome captain and his crew, and hurled without mercy on the winds and weather.
• It so chanced that on the second day after my arrival a pack-train came along, guided by a nettlesome old man and a strong, black-haired lass of sixteen or thereabouts. The old man . . . had no sooner slipped the packs from the horses than he began to rail at Hans, who stood looking on. "You damned Dutchmen all be Tories, and worse," he cried.
• Almost daily, U.S. newspapers are confronted by a nettlesome problem for which they have found no final answer. The problem: Should Negroes be identified as such in news stories?
• For nearly 40 years, Mr. Solarin, an unpretentious and intensely pugnacious man, has been an intellectual guru for Nigeria's disenchanted and disfranchised.
• He's also delving into one of the most nettlesome legal issues on the Net — whether one party can turn another's trademark into a URL.
• No one could act naturally with her. . . . She was sure she had never lived through days in which she, Anne Couper Fraser, forced those nearby to tiptoe around her nettlesome personality.