Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Any cause of stumbling or failing; that which presents itself as a difficulty in one's way; a hindrance or obstruction, physically or morally; an offense or temptation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Any cause of stumbling, perplexity, or error.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun idiomatic Alternative spelling of
stumbling block .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any obstacle or impediment
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Examples
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One stumbling-block for authentication has been Hulu.
Fox TV Shows Get Pay Wall Sam Schechner 2011
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The existence of evil is then a terrible stumbling-block to the Theist.
Evil thoughts for a Sunday morning AYDIN 2009
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This movement draws its main support from conservatives in Western Canada; by ‘Effective’ they mean giving it the power to act as a stumbling-block to the House of Commons.
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The existence of evil is then a terrible stumbling-block to the Theist.
Archive 2009-09-01 AYDIN 2009
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To the few this is as clear as daylight, and beautifully suggestive, but to many it is evidently a stumbling-block.
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009
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Reasoning that British and American aid to the Chinese was the main stumbling-block to their success, the Japanese sought to block the supply by occupying Indochina.
Sealing Their Fate David Downing 2009
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If this novel has a stumbling-block, though, it's in its use of the third person.
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If this novel has a stumbling-block, though, it's in its use of the third person.
Wolf Hall 2009
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To the few this is as clear as daylight, and beautifully suggestive, but to many it is evidently a stumbling-block.
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009
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The real stumbling-block of totalitarian regimes is not the spiritual need of men for freedom of thought; it is men's inability to stand the physical and nervous strain of a permanent state of excitement ....
David Bromwich: Would It Be Torture If It Was Done to You? 2008
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