bothering
烦人的,烦人,烦人的事,烦人的事情
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Definitions
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- : to annoy; give trouble to; pester: His little sister kept bothering him for candy.
- : to cause unease, anxiety, or worry in: I hadn't realized how much being in a small boat bothers me until we got into choppy waters.
- : to bewilder; confuse: His inability to understand the joke bothered him.
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- : to take the trouble; trouble or inconvenience oneself: Don't bother to call. He has no time to bother with trifles.
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- : something troublesome, burdensome, or annoying: Doing the laundry every week can be a terrible bother.
- : effort, work, or worry: Gardening takes more bother than it's worth.
- : a worried or perplexed state: Don't get into such a bother about small matters.
- : someone or something that bothers or annoys: My cousin is a perpetual bother to me.
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- : Chiefly British.
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Examples
The argument also went that the lack of publicity would dissuade would-be hostage-takers from bothering to grab reporters.
A friendship-starting, pain-decreasing, Kremlin-bothering pass for dropping F-bombs?
I think I had more of an artistic thing bouncing around and bothering me.
But by not bothering to run anyone, state Democratic parties remain enfeebled.
I am starting with a hunch, and that's why I'm bothering to ask the questions.
The Taube has been bothering us again, but wound up its manœuvres very decently by killing some fish for our dinner.
Many, like myself, find the last less trouble and expense than bothering with incubators.
Black Hood vaulted into the roadster without bothering to open the door.
But no matter what happens, time and the world rolls by as indifferently as though there was nothing worth bothering about.
That was what was bothering Brodrick; for it was Jane's hand, in its freedom, that had kept the standard of the magazine so high.