Troublemaking

Tom's troublemaking days are over.

His troublemaking days are over.

The prestige of the Societies had been effectually destroyed by the President’s denunciation; in a surprisingly short time these ambitious and troublemaking organizations sank into desuetude and were lost to view.

Moving to Saignon in the mid-1920s, he helped to produce a troublemaking newspaper, L'Indochine, which ventilated the many complaints of the Vietnamese about forced labor, land expropriation, and police brutality.

Finding the words, the expressions, the way of living that could be the trouble-making inside this closed society, that's our main goal. It's mine anyway. It's the only way to be open, to be conscious of not being just an object, of not being only acted upon, but doing things by yourself.

The spunky kindergartener (first grader in more recent volumes) is prone to troublemaking, often calls people names and isn’t averse to talking back to her teachers.