Vocabulary
Nuisance
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
a person or thing causing inconvenience or annoyance.
Urdu meaning
پریشانی، قانون کے مطابق مضر یا نقصان دہ
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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Charges like `obstruction of law-enforcement officers` or `resisting law-enforcement officers`, `causing public nuisance`, `obstruction of traffic`, etc, are easy to weaponise against protesters and they have been weaponised.
Dawn Editorials —
Words without actions
— 2026-01-02
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Above all, the state must stop treating independent journalism as a nuisance and recognise it as a safeguard of democracy.
Dawn Editorials —
Truth or noise?
— 2025-09-28
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For authoritarian leaders like Trump, Putin, XiJinping, and Modi, academic freedom is a nuisance, a roadblock to be cleared.
Dawn Editorials —
Why Trump hates Harvard
— 2025-08-02
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The Maharashtra Navnirman Sena, a BJP ally known for its nuisance value, has stated that the film will not be screened in Maharashtra, while raking up the 2019 Pulwama incident.
Dawn Editorials —
Party pooper
— 2025-04-04
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The beggar problem has become such a nuisance that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has taken it up officially with Pakistan.
Dawn Editorials —
Pakistan`s human exports
— 2024-09-04
Synonyms
source of annoyance/irritation, annoyance, inconvenience, bore, bother, irritant
Curator example
“it’s a nuisance having all those people clomping through the house”
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Urdu equivalents where we have them, word relations, and—when generated—real lines from the editorial archive
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