Definition of "troubling" []

• Distressing, worrying (adjective)
• Present participle of trouble. (verb)

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• "He was already preparing for a possible war with Iraq when he got what he called the troubling news about North Korea's nuclear program."
• "In June 2010, I wrote in this space about a book, "The New Jim Crow," by Michelle Alexander, which I called a "troubling and profoundly necessary" work."
• "Lawsky says the agreements go a long way to clean up what he calls troubling practices in the mortgage industry."