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thorn in one's side synonyms

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  • answerability
  • blameworthiness
  • liability
  • adversity
  • anguish
  • calamity
  • cross
  • crux
  • depression
  • difficulty
  • disease
  • disorder
  • distress
  • grief
  • hardship
  • illness
  • infirmity
  • misery
  • misfortune
  • ordeal
  • pain
  • plague
  • plight
  • cross to bear
  • disgrace
  • load
  • millstone
  • misery
  • woe
  • all-overs
  • angst
  • ants in pants
  • apprehension
  • botheration
  • butterflies
  • care
  • cold sweat
  • concern
  • creeps
  • disquiet
  • disquietude
  • distress
  • doubt
  • downer
  • drag
  • dread
  • fidgets
  • flap
  • foreboding
  • girlfriend
  • little woman
  • old lady
  • old woman
  • wife
  • accusation
  • animadversion
  • arraignment
  • attack
  • attribution
  • castigation
  • censure
  • charge
  • chiding
  • complaint
  • criticism
  • denunciation
  • depreciation
  • diatribe
  • disapprobation
  • disapproval
  • disfavor
  • disparagement
  • expostulation
  • exprobation
  • affliction
  • aggravation
  • alarm
  • anguish
  • annoyance
  • anxiety
  • apprehension
  • bother
  • burden
  • chagrin
  • charge
  • consternation
  • discomposure
  • dismay
  • disquiet
  • distress
  • disturbance
  • encumbrance
  • exasperation
  • fear
  • allegation
  • beef
  • complaint
  • gripe
  • imputation
  • indictment
  • plaint
  • stink
  • charge
  • chargé d'affaires ad interim
  • bar
  • block
  • blockade
  • burden
  • cumbrance
  • dead weight
  • drag
  • encumbrance
  • hindrance
  • impedance
  • impediment
  • obstruction
  • snag
  • affair
  • burden
  • care
  • charge
  • company
  • corporation
  • deportment
  • entanglement
  • enterprise
  • establishment
  • field
  • firm
  • house
  • interest
  • involvement
  • job
  • jungle
  • matter
  • megacorp
  • mission
  • Herculean task
  • accountability
  • affliction
  • albatross
  • anxiety
  • ball and chain
  • blame
  • care
  • charge
  • clog
  • concern
  • difficulty
  • duty
  • encumbrance
  • excess baggage
  • grievance
  • hardship
  • hindrance
  • load
  • millstone
  • adversity
  • arduousness
  • awkwardness
  • barricade
  • check
  • complication
  • crisis
  • crux
  • dead end
  • deadlock
  • deep water
  • dilemma
  • distress
  • emergency
  • exigency
  • fix
  • frustration
  • hardship
  • hazard
  • hindrance
  • burden
  • business
  • calling
  • charge
  • chore
  • commission
  • commitment
  • committal
  • contract
  • devoir
  • dues
  • engagement
  • function
  • hook
  • job
  • load
  • millstone
  • minding the store
  • mission
  • must
  • albatross
  • ball and chain
  • cross
  • debt
  • duty
  • guilt
  • handicap
  • hindrance
  • impediment
  • load
  • millstone
  • monkey on one's back
  • obstruction
  • responsibility
  • saddle
  • thorn in one's side
  • weight
  • worry
  • Herculean task
  • accountability
  • affliction
  • albatross
  • anxiety
  • ball and chain
  • blame
  • care
  • charge
  • clog
  • concern
  • deadweight
  • difficulty
  • duty
  • encumbrance
  • grievance
  • hardship
  • hindrance
  • load
  • millstone
  • affliction
  • ax to grind
  • beef
  • bellyache
  • big stink
  • blast
  • case
  • cross
  • damage
  • distress
  • flack
  • grief
  • grouse
  • hardship
  • holler
  • hoo-ha
  • howl
  • injury
  • injustice
  • jeremiad
  • Herculean task
  • accident
  • adversity
  • affliction
  • asperity
  • austerity
  • calamity
  • case
  • catastrophe
  • curse
  • danger
  • destitution
  • difficulty
  • disaster
  • discomfort
  • distress
  • drudgery
  • fatigue
  • grief
  • grievance
  • accountability
  • affliction
  • albatross
  • anxiety
  • ball and chain
  • blame
  • care
  • charge
  • clog
  • concern
  • deadweight
  • difficulty
  • duty
  • encumbrance
  • excess baggage
  • grievance
  • hardship
  • hindrance
  • load
  • millstone
  • Catch-22
  • albatross
  • baggage
  • ball and chain
  • bar
  • barrier
  • catch
  • check
  • clog
  • crimp
  • cumbrance
  • deterrent
  • drag
  • drawback
  • encumbrance
  • excess baggage
  • foot dragging
  • glitch
  • gridlock
  • handicap
  • amount
  • bale
  • bundle
  • capacity
  • charge
  • consignment
  • contents
  • encumbrance
  • goods
  • haul
  • heft
  • hindrance
  • lading
  • mass
  • pack
  • parcel
  • part
  • payload
  • shipment
  • shot
  • accountability
  • affliction
  • albatross
  • anxiety
  • ball and chain
  • blame
  • charge
  • concern
  • cross
  • deadweight
  • difficulty
  • encumbrance
  • grievance
  • hardship
  • hindrance
  • load
  • mental weight
  • misfortune
  • onus
  • punishment
  • accident
  • adversity
  • affliction
  • annoyance
  • anxiety
  • bad break
  • bad luck
  • bad news
  • blow
  • burden
  • calamity
  • casualty
  • cataclysm
  • catastrophe
  • contretemps
  • cross
  • crunch
  • debacle
  • disadvantage
  • disappointment
  • blow
  • blunder
  • calamity
  • collision
  • crack-up
  • disaster
  • fender-bender
  • fluke
  • hazard
  • ill-fortune
  • misadventure
  • misfortune
  • mistake
  • pileup
  • rear-ender
  • setback
  • smash
  • smashup
  • stack-up
  • total
  • bar
  • barricade
  • barrier
  • block
  • blockage
  • blocking
  • booby trap
  • check
  • checkmate
  • circumvention
  • difficulty
  • gridlock
  • hamper
  • hindrance
  • hurdle
  • interference
  • jam
  • lock
  • monkey wrench
  • mountain
  • bar sinister
  • black eye
  • blame
  • blot
  • blur
  • brand
  • charge
  • culpability
  • deadweight
  • duty
  • encumbrance
  • fault
  • guilt
  • incubus
  • liability
  • load
  • millstone
  • obligation
  • odium
  • oppression
  • abuse
  • amercement
  • beating
  • castigation
  • chastening
  • chastisement
  • comeuppance
  • confiscation
  • correction
  • deprivation
  • disciplinary action
  • discipline
  • forfeit
  • forfeiture
  • gallows
  • hard work
  • infliction
  • just desserts
  • lumps
  • maltreatment
  • albatross
  • amenability
  • answerability
  • authority
  • boundness
  • burden
  • care
  • charge
  • constraint
  • contract
  • culpability
  • duty
  • encumbrance
  • engagement
  • fault
  • guilt
  • holding the bag
  • importance
  • incubus
  • incumbency
  • affliction
  • agony
  • anguish
  • bad news
  • big trouble
  • blow
  • blues
  • care
  • catastrophe
  • dejection
  • depression
  • distress
  • dolor
  • grieving
  • hardship
  • heartache
  • heartbreak
  • lamenting
  • melancholy
  • misery
  • ache
  • anxiety
  • bruise
  • brunt
  • burden
  • constriction
  • effort
  • endeavor
  • exertion
  • force
  • injury
  • jerk
  • pressure
  • pull
  • sprain
  • stress
  • stretch
  • struggle
  • tautness
  • tension
  • assignment
  • bother
  • burden
  • business
  • calling
  • charge
  • daily grind
  • deadweight
  • duty
  • effort
  • employment
  • enterprise
  • errand
  • exercise
  • fun and games
  • function
  • gig
  • grind
  • grindstone
  • headache
  • assessment
  • bite
  • brokerage
  • capitation
  • contribution
  • cost
  • custom
  • dues
  • duty
  • excise
  • expense
  • fine
  • giveaway
  • imposition
  • impost
  • levy
  • obligation
  • pork barrel
  • price
  • rate
  • balloon
  • exploratory
  • pilot
  • preliminary
  • probationary
  • provisional
  • tentative
  • test
  • testing
  • agitation
  • anxiety
  • bad news
  • bind
  • bother
  • commotion
  • concern
  • danger
  • difficulty
  • dilemma
  • dire straits
  • discontent
  • discord
  • disorder
  • disquiet
  • dissatisfaction
  • distress
  • disturbance
  • grief
  • hang-up
  • Herculean task
  • accountability
  • affliction
  • albatross
  • anxiety
  • ball and chain
  • blame
  • care
  • charge
  • clog
  • concern
  • deadweight
  • difficulty
  • duty
  • encumbrance
  • excess baggage
  • grievance
  • hardship
  • hindrance
  • load
  • assignment
  • attempt
  • commission
  • daily grind
  • drudge
  • drudgery
  • effort
  • elbow grease
  • endeavor
  • exertion
  • functioning
  • grind
  • grindstone
  • industry
  • job
  • moil
  • muscle
  • obligation
  • pains
  • performance
  • anguish
  • annoyance
  • apprehension
  • bad news
  • care
  • concern
  • disquiet
  • distress
  • disturbance
  • doubt
  • fear
  • headache
  • heartache
  • irritation
  • misery
  • misgiving
  • nag
  • pain
  • perplexity
  • pest

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