Meaning of problem child | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A child who is particularly difficult to raise or educate, especially due to a lack of self-control and disruptive and antisocial behavior.
   euphemistic
2. Someone or something persistently difficult or vexing; a frequent source of trouble or annoyance.
   broadly, idiomatic

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Examples

“Of recent times very much has been said regarding the problem child, but as Lady Stradbroke pointed out last⟳ week but little is being done to cope with the menace that child is to itself and to the community.”

“Hill was a problem child who was sent to Woodlands because his parents couldn't handle⟳ him at home.”

“An’ here I am. Your dream⟳ problem child. A facety ghetto rude gyal grateful for your remarkable lack of judgeyness, an’ ready to be dazzled and inspired by your penetrating insight.”

“[A]n ambitious supersonic carrier fighter called the F3H Demon . . . proved too heavy for its Navy-specified Westinghouse engine (in itself a problem child), and turned into a $265 million fiasco.”

“Locally and across the nation, middle schools have⟳ generally been regarded as the problem child for school systems.”

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