The Collaborative International Dictionary
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
vb. (present participle of bother English)
Usage examples of "bothering".
Dave were swearing their heads off as they spoke with her and he knew that was what was bothering him.
One of her twin daughters was unable to talk to her about what was bothering her and something was definitely bothering her, she knew.
Since Patrick had come home she had eased off a little bit but Annie knew her daughter well enough to know that something was bothering her, something more than usual.
Lenny had made the mistake of never giving anyone their due, not respecting their part in any skulduggery that came his way or bothering to acknowledge their existence.
Not bothering to turn on the lights, she dropped her purse and hat on a chair by the entry and marched across the living room to one of the big corner windows.
I got a good grip and dragged him toward the club, not bothering to look back for Nevis.
Phil would be sure to keep a watch out for him and keep him from bothering Miss Smythe.
I really was serious when I mentioned over the IMC that the men could talk with you if there was something bothering them about this whole mess.
Sitting on the cold, hard floor, out of the way of traffic, she puts on her running shoes, not bothering to lace them.
He rips off toilet paper and, again without bothering to pull up his pants, picks up the note and returns to the toilet.
Soon after I found my food I figured I might as well settle for some out-of-the-way place rather than go bothering people in the middle of the night.
Without bothering to warn Dolabella, he brought the Tenth into the Forum and set them loose on the gangsand hapless Forum frequenters caught in the eye of the storm.
Within the space of a day, he had packed up and set off for Syria, leaving Rome in charge of the urban praetor, Gaius Antonius, and without so much as bothering to write a note to Antony or tell the Senate that he was leaving.
X-frames instead of bothering to find forked twigs of the proper size and angle.
Garric nodded and jumped to the ground without bothering to lower himself by his hands first.