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   nuisance

   /ˈnjuːsns/

   noun

   • 1. a person or thing causing inconvenience or annoyance: "it's a nuisance having all those people clomping through the house"
   • ▪ an act which is harmful or offensive to the public or a member of it and for which there is a legal remedy.

   Word Origin late Middle English (in the sense ‘injury, hurt’): from Old French, ‘hurt’, from the verb nuire, from Latin nocere ‘to harm’.

   Scrabble Points: 10

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