trouble-monger

plural trouble-mongers · alternative troublemonger

1. A troublemaker.

   Lace said that Peter was not half so bad as people said, and certainly not a trouble-monger like that Yeller Elbert.

   1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter XI, in Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, published 1943, page 179

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   If the Queen had stood for any novel or fantastic imperial claims, the whole would have seemed a nightmare; the whole was successful because she stood, and no one could deny that she stood, for the humblest, the shortest and the most indestructible of human gospels, that when all troubles and troublemongers have had their say, our work can be done till sunset, our life can be lived till death.

   1903, G. K. Chesterton, Varied Types, New York: Dodd, Mead & Co, pages 233–4

   Fourth most important factor was inability on the part of University authorities to take disciplinary action against the trouble-mongers. It may be mentioned here that some trouble-mongers are not University students.

   1980, The Bangladesh Journal of Psychology, volume 6, Bangladesh Psychological Association, page 9