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bothered
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
bothered
adjective
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
hot and bothered
▪ I sit, all hot and bothered, suffering, and mention this.
▪ It was too unsettling, made her feel too hot and bothered.
▪ Not everyone, however, is hot and bothered.
▪ She had got herself all hot and bothered and she felt much safer in the water than she had in the barn.
sb can't/couldn't be bothered (to do sth)
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Nobody seemed bothered that Grandpa wasn't there.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ After one hundred days of world peace, all surviving were to put it mildly, a little bothered and regretful.
▪ I can see you're not happy at the moment, all restless and. bothered.
▪ If it is Narouz, and the Khedive is bothered, we can tell Narouz to get out of the country quick.
▪ Luckily she appeared so insignificant with all the bags that no one bothered to give her a second glance.
▪ She had got herself all hot and bothered and she felt much safer in the water than she had in the barn.
▪ When a man as attractive as Crilly makes an attempt to leave the circle, the girls get bothered.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bothered

Bother \Both"er\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bothered (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Bothering.] [Cf. Ir. buaidhirt trouble, buaidhrim I vex.] To annoy; to trouble; to worry; to perplex. See Pother.

Note: The imperative is sometimes used as an exclamation mildly imprecatory.

Wiktionary
bothered

  1. Caused to show discomposure v

  2. (en-past of: bother)

WordNet
bothered

adj. caused to show discomposure; "refused to be fazed by the objections" [syn: daunted, fazed]

Usage examples of "bothered".

Travis didn’t want to be bothered with having an outsider underfoot on the Wind Warrior, or someone looking over his shoulder while he tinkered with sail and hull designs on his computer.

She didn’t understand why Travis had bothered until she read the last page.

So long as they think you’re Walker’s woman, you and that fat collection of gems won’t be bothered.

But it was the first time the thought of dying had truly bothered him.

It wasn’t the idea of losing a bet that bothered Dane but the knowledge that Chase had used up more than his share of women since his divorce.

Can the descendant of Hawaiian kings be bothered to teach a mere haole the secrets of butterfly hunting?

He hadn’t been this hot and bothered over a woman since West Virginia, when Savannah Marie had set out to tease one of the Moran brothers into marrying her.

She had been so busy playing with Prettyface and arguing with Whip that she hadn’t bothered to look at the sky.

It still bothered him that Shannon had risked her life for him and never once had hinted that he owed her anything for it.

He been gone a month or two, but he be comin’ back soon enough, and there be pure fiery hell to pay if’n his woman is bothered.

She could do the work faster herself, but she knew how much being dependent on anyone for help bothered the proud Mrs.

Other than a few calls at odd times of the night, Turner hadn’t bothered her.

And that bothered him even more than the fresh, vaguely peppermint scent of Honor Donovan.

The silence on the other end of the line would have bothered most people.

Nothing showed over the gun barrel but two wood kitchen chairs, an electric stove, a sink, and a table covered with mail he hadn’t bothered to open.