nuisance

The selection was a statement of intent; to win the air, to sap Ireland's speed with a nuisance ground game and throw a defensive blanket over their attack.

“As we said from the beginning, these were false claims that we settled for nuisance value, much less than it would have cost to defend,” Parlatore told CNN.

In some scenes, the spirit is a poltergeist nuisance, spilling glasses and knocking down shelves; in others, it’s confoundingly trapped behind some sort of plasma screen.

Wild boars can carry diseases and cause a nuisance to farmers because of their size.

“What people are really interested in when we’re looking at this is, is this just a nuisance smoke wave, or is this something that maybe is considered an actual disaster?”