Problematic

//ˌpɹɒbləˈmætɪk//

"Problematic" in a Sentence (18 examples)

The separation of gold from sand is problematic.

Marrying someone from a different background or country will always be more problematic than marrying someone from your own.

Your boyfriend is a problematic person, but that's not a good enough reason to give up or break off your relationship.

It may be problematic to dissuade your parents from accompanying you to the event.

For me, interpreting the question was problematic.

Agh. I waited for a long time for the receipt of a present from my mother. However, it's very problematic.

The more we spoil a child, the more problematic he will be.

This is going to be problematic.

The lack of transparency is problematic.

Is that problematic for you?

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And the most problematic thing of all is that it is impossible for me even to know and tell you their names, unless one of them happens to be a playwright.

However, estimating what consumers will pay in the future is problematic.

The station is blessed with a cafe and staff accommodation, as it's an important crew changeover point, although this can be problematic when services are late.

The strangeness of hiring undocumented Mexican women as domestics, many of whom were no older than fifteen, seemed strange to me. It was this strangeness that raised the topic of domestic service as a question and made problematic what had previously been taken for granted.

a problematic analysis

it portends a problematic future for the movement

The seemingly intractable problematic of essentialism versus antiessentialism and primordialism versus circumstantialism endemic to identity analysis today.

However, for those who come to India’s railway history for the first time, perhaps via knowledge of other countries’ railway histories with which they want to make India-based comparisons or in pursuit of a particular problematic—for example the role of railways in economic development—this chapter may prove useful.

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