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Public nuisance   /pˈəblɪk nˈusəns/   Listen
Public nuisance

noun
1.
A nuisance that unreasonably interferes with a right that is common to the general public.  Synonym: common nuisance.






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"Public nuisance" Quotes from Famous Books



... daily! I tell Forney that I find it is all I can do to attend to one. Tell him not to get too rich—bad for the constitution and worse for the country. Any man who has more than a million is a public nuisance." ...
— Memoirs • Charles Godfrey Leland

... romantic adventures, not unlike those of Charles the Second, he escaped to France. A number of charming stories and delightful songs arose out of the Jacobite feelings, and belong to the Jacobite times. Otherwise I think the Stuarts were a public nuisance altogether. ...
— A Child's History of England • Charles Dickens



Words linked to "Public nuisance" :   common nuisance, nuisance



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