"troubling tendency" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used to describe an ongoing pattern of behavior or circumstance that is worrisome or disconcerting. For example, "The government's recent budget cuts have exposed a troubling tendency of neglecting public services."
As many workers have discovered, unfinanced promises of future benefits have a troubling tendency to become worthless in times of economic stress.
He says MI6 "demonstrated a troubling tendency to be defensive and unhelpful, it provided inaccurate and incomplete information and generally sought to fence with and close down lines of enquiry rather than engage constructively".
Back in Idaho, in 95-degree heat, the car had developed a troubling tendency to develop vapor lock, its liquid fuel turning gaseous and unusable, leaving me sweating and frantic at the roadside.
Back in Idaho, in 95-degree heat, the car had developed a troubling tendency to seize up with vapor locks, its liquid fuel turning gaseous and unusable, leaving me sweating and frantic at the roadside.
His few friendships with schoolmates and colleagues were almost erotically intense, but even the closest were thwarted by his inability to adapt to the vicissitudes of ordinary life: changing tastes, emotional competition, the troubling tendency of the clever men he knew to acquire dullish wives.
But, in an environment of profound uncertainty, investors have a natural if troubling tendency to turn to them as horoscopes, particularly since they now get so much attention in the business press: you have only to turn on CNBC or go online to find that the Japanese market is cratering or the VIX index soaring.
The shameful episode in Jaipur is, indeed, best seen in light of deeper, and troubling, tendencies of contemporary Indian politics.
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One of the most troubling tendencies in the aftermath of the Holocaust has been to belittle or marginalize the suffering of non-Jews.
I have bad habits and troubling tendencies that I want you to be spared from.
Here are some theories on my own troubling tendencies--and those, no doubt, of many women like me.
