Full of difficulty or agitation:those were troublous times...
These later stories find Parker's trouble with girls becoming truly troublous, and it is to Boswell's credit that the girls in question are always sharply if not always fairly drawn.
So why then is a government supposedly devoted to fostering British science still insisting on forcing some of its leading researchers into Dickens's ‘perplexed and troublous valley of the shadow of the law’?
Once past social amenities, Sula's reunion with Eva resonates with the troublous timbre between an ogbanje and parent.
Origin
Late Middle English: from Old French troubleus, from truble(see trouble).