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public nuisance

NOUN
  1. a nuisance that unreasonably interferes with a right that is common to the general public
    a public nuisance offends the public at large

How To Use public nuisance In A Sentence

  • Apart from causing public nuisance and inconvenience to the commuters this also leads to road accidents.
  • No explanation or suspicion that the person could be a public nuisance is required. Times, Sunday Times
  • The horns are very penetrating and to many it is a public nuisance.
  • Those who reside or work where zoning laws prohibit public nuisances need not apply.
  • I therefore reject the submission that a public nuisance requires an unlawful act.
  • Second, the arrogant overclass should be fined for causing a public nuisance due to a road having to be closed. Times, Sunday Times
  • They said she had become a public nuisance behind the station ‘as she quite openly solicits males on Fairfield Street and as a result of such liaisons, regularly frequents the ladies' toilets’ on Piccadilly station itself.
  • On an average day, it holds 1,500 to 1,700 inmates who are severely mentally ill, most of them detained on minor charges, essentially for being public nuisances.
  • Public nuisance is a tort as well as a crime but civil proceedings may be brought only with the consent of the Attorney-General on a relator action.
  • In fact, these bikers are committing offences of driving on common land and causing a public nuisance, which can both carry up to six months in prison.
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