(v. t.) To annoy; to trouble; to worry; to perplex. See Pother.
(v. i.) To feel care or anxiety; to make or take trouble; to be troublesome.
(n.) One who, or that which, bothers; state of perplexity or annoyance; embarrassment; worry; disturbance; petty trouble; as, to be in a bother.
Example Sentences:
(1) Why bother to put the investigators, prosecutors, judge, jury and me through this if one person can set justice aside, with the swipe of a pen.
(2) Unless you are part of some Unite-esque scheme to join up as part of a grand revolutionary plan, why would you bother shelling out for a membership card?
(3) Dinner is the usual “international” menu that few will bother with given the wealth of choice nearby.
(4) Despite excellent control of acute-stage emesis, some patients are still bothered by delayed emesis occurring more than 24 hours after cisplatin administration.
(5) Given this bipartisan strategy to minimise commitments, there is little wonder that voter turnout also reached a historical low, with less than two thirds bothering to vote in the east.
(6) I do think it is set fair but I am more bothered about the eurozone.
(7) These were: urinary symptoms, degree of bother due to urinary symptoms, BPH-specific interference with activities, general psychological well-being, worries and concerns, and sexual satisfaction.
(8) Interactive guide Election countdown: the key dates up to June 7 Interactive quizzes Can you be bothered?
(9) TV's Jeremy Paxman didn't even bother hiding his disdain for the introduction of weather reports to Newsnight – "It's April.
(10) And indeed both E.ON and SSE offer these for those who bother to switch,” he added.
(11) After the first couple days like everyone was like: 'Ah, I can't be bothered.
(12) Had they bothered to inquire of a veteran from the ranks, they might have heard how exasperating it is to see the dainty long-range patriots of Labour thrashing it out with the staunch gutter jingoists of the Conservative party – and barely a non-commissioned vet among them.
(13) I have been noticing, with sadness, that politicians do not even bother invoking the American Dream anymore.
(14) "No one ever bothered him at the suppers," former pastor Bob Moyer of Hartland told the paper.
(15) Refusing to play in the Seven Kingdoms league, the all black kit helps the team in matches against Wildling FC, who never bother to wear the same colours.
(16) No one else need bother to paint them as a ramshackle and rancorous rabble marooned in the past and without a plausible account of the future.
(17) With the coming of the meritocracy, the now leaderless masses were partially disfranchised; as time has gone by, more and more of them have been disengaged, and disaffected to the extent of not even bothering to vote.
(18) A cursory web search would have helped but fewer of us bother when the news is relatively inconsequential.
(19) What bothers me is that a club would contact the manager of a national team without first notifying the Federation.
(20) Arsenal responded in the only way they know, with Ramsey, Mesut Özil, Jack Wilshere and Oxlade-Chamberlain all involved in intricate passing patterns on the edge of the area, though there was no end product to bother Tim Howard apart from another long shot from Oxlade-Chamberlain that drifted wide.
Inconvenience
Definition:
(n.) The quality or condition of being inconvenient; want of convenience; unfitness; unsuitableness; inexpediency; awkwardness; as, the inconvenience of the arrangement.
(n.) That which gives trouble, embarrassment, or uneasiness; disadvantage; anything that disturbs quiet, impedes prosperity, or increases the difficulty of action or success; as, one inconvenience of life is poverty.
(v. t.) To put to inconvenience; to incommode; as, to inconvenience a neighbor.
Example Sentences:
(1) One-nation prime ministers like Cameron found the libertarians useful for voting against taxation; inconvenient when they got too loud about heavy-handed government.
(2) As a result of measures taken to reduce artifacts and to improve the signal-to-noise ratio, the measurements were performed reliably, with little inconvenience for the patients; all measurements could be used for analysis.
(3) The patient suffers little inconvenience, has a very small scar and is in hospital only a short time.
(4) Home-monitoring may reduce the inconvenience and expense of inpatient or outpatient care and country hospitals without electronic fetal monitors may benefit from such a service.
(5) Long before anyone had heard of Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth, she planned to make a low-budget documentary about oil and climate change.
(6) And in November, the US sixth circuit court of appeals ruled against these decisions , leaving Johnson and Campion in the same demeaning and inconvenient legal status they have faced since getting together.
(7) Removing a sleeping child from a buggy may be inconvenient, but it is not likely to be as inconvenient for a parent as it would be for a wheelchair user to be prevented from boarding.
(8) In connection with this investigation pathobiochemical considerations of late diabetic injuries are carried out, which are the consequence of inconveniences in the usability of glucose of diabetics and the connected with this non-enzymatic glycosylation of various proteins.
(9) Ultimately, we are fallible and forgetful, so the best way to solve the problem is as always choice-editing or design this inconvenience out.
(10) The women with reported noise exposure had significantly more inconvenience at work than other working women.
(11) It’s a massive inconvenience to have to check a laptop, and you can imagine that such a demand is met with resistance by air carriers, who are powerful lobbies.” US airlines have been lobbying the Trump administration to intervene in the Persian Gulf, where they have contended for years that the investments in three rapidly expanding airlines in the area – Etihad Airways, Qatar, and Emirates – constitute unfair government subsidies with which Delta, American and United cannot compete.
(12) Others have found more striking-power, or more simple poetry, but none an interpretation at once so full (in the sense of histrionic volume) and so consistently bringing all the aspects together, without any shirking or pruning away of what is inconvenient.
(13) Speakers, if anything, should be towards the people who are not in government, as actually John Bercow probably has done in the way that he has used urgent questions that we have found inconvenient.” The parliamentary website states: “The Speaker is the chief officer and highest authority of the House of Commons and must remain politically impartial at all times.
(14) In an echo of Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth , which evolved from a slideshow presentation into a hit eco documentary, the prince's film is currently being shot in the US.
(15) By "giving up" an hour less a day, or better still every 48 hours, the patient can avoid the inconvenience of numerous, continual and uncontrollable evacuations.
(16) Inconvenience and inaccurate clocking were the most common sources of conflict cited.
(17) Both physician and patient need to determine whether the benefit of prophylaxis outweighs the inconvenience and possible side effects of the medication used.
(18) Thus, cyclic periods of stimulation were necessary to maintain the beneficial effects of electrical stimulation and a permanent pelvic floor stimulator was implanted since chronic transrectal stimulation was inconvenient.
(19) I'm sorry for the inconvenience we caused our customers.
(20) For instance; hesitant to go to a hot spring, or on a trip with friends (76%), hesitant to go to a clinic or a hospital for physical check-ups and common illness (74%), troublesome to wear special underwear (69%), inconvenient because ordinary clothes cannot be worn (56%), distressed when viewing own body (52%), unable to dress in thin clothes in hot summer season (50%), imbalance of the breasts (49%), inconvenient to participate in sports (47%).