public menace

If he believed me he'd shut us down as a public menace this very day.

'He said you're a public menace, and that nobody can tell what you'll get into next.

"I think the lot of you are a damned public menace.

But there was also a standing government reward for destroying a public menace.

The public menace afoot was great enough without her adding to it.

"In my opinion, you're a public menace and your father should be haled into court for not keeping you under better control!"

In this area, though, nonsense is a public menace.

Tobacco was now being cast as a public menace, not as a private choice.

He knew he'd be lucky to get a hear- ing before being locked up as a public menace.

And, as a poet once said, stupidity carried beyond a certain point becomes a public menace.

It was when he slid behind the wheel that he became a public menace.

In effect they were saying that my son needed to be locked up for the foreseeable future if he wasn't to be a public menace.

Or the bicycle deliverymen who become public menaces when they go the wrong way on one-way streets?

One of our first acts was to remove all waiters from duty, as public menaces."

He had not forgotten that only a short time ago many of these same people had been calling his beloved young boss a public menace.

She is noticeably less jolly when talking about another group she considers to be a public menace: the police.

The Federal government is called upon to declare noise a dangerous form of pollution, a serious threat to health and safety, and a public menace.

In 1909, residents of Kenosha County had brought suit against the company on the grounds that the plant was a public menace.

The pansy had become a "public menace."

Mirdon was a soldier, a professional-or, at least, not a public menace like Jormin.

Is the megadonor a public menace?

He would follow Lilisaire's next instructions as best he was able, to the point where he saw them leading toward a public menace.

'The world needs to know that The Ruler is a homicidal maniac and a public menace.

Buckshot displays none of the usual gangster remorse, he is a willful public menace."

They have crossed the line from being protectors to being avengers and have themselves become a public menace."