(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.
Nother
Definition:
(conj.) Neither; nor.
Example Sentences:
(1) A nother morning, another news story of a woman being gang raped in India's cities.
(2) A nother day has just broken in Liberia's capital, Monrovia.
(3) A nother week, and another set of Republicans have endorsed Hillary Clinton .
(4) Surveys of low-income women in Los Angeles County in 1985 and 1986 were used to examine the relative impact of child-bearing motivations versus life circumstances on the intention to have a(nother) child.
(5) A nother week, another heated debate over the tactics and language used by the feminist protest group Femen, which last Thursday launched an International Topless Jihad Day.
(6) A nother day, another list of things that pregnant women might do wrong.
(7) A nother mishap yesterday rammed into the back of Iain Duncan Smith's pile-up of car crashes, as his roll-out of new disability benefits was delayed, yet again .
(8) A nother week, another ill-conceived bout of social media diarrhoea.
(9) A nother week, another fraught selection of noises off at Tottenham Hotspur: Spurs may be on course for a creditable fifth place in the Premier League but this season will surely take its place as one of the more relentlessly tortured episodes of par-score achievement in recent Premier League history.
(10) A nother day, another viral video of a beauty queen fluffing an interview.
(11) A nother day, another opportunity to whack the bonds of the weaklings of the eurozone.
(12) A nother day, another anti-gay marriage statement from some Roman Catholic grandee.
(13) A nother prime minister has gone, this one the self-proclaimed champion for Indigenous people whose personal mission was to redress our country’s “national failure”.
(14) A nother of the government’s mad, bad and ill-prepared schemes is in deep trouble.
(15) # MGEITF August 23, 2012 7.14pm BST Lisa O'Carroll continues: lisa o'carroll (@lisaocarroll) lis Murdoch: My parents spoke to us over breakfast table about our purpose, that we could be obliged to be outsiders and constant nomads August 23, 2012 and lisa o'carroll (@lisaocarroll) L Murdoch talks about building TV cathedrals of future combining vision of Steve Jobs + Lord Reith (nother ref 2 value of public service TV) August 23, 2012 Updated at 7.18pm BST 7.11pm BST Lisa O'Carroll has just tweeted: lisa o'carroll (@lisaocarroll) Lis Murdoch lets her respect for her dad shine through.
(16) The operative protocols, conditions and experimentation, as well as the results, will be studied as objectively as possible so as to determine the essential efficacy of one or nother product.
(17) A nother day has passed in Australian politics, and, with it, the prime-ministerial career of Julia Gillard .
(18) A nother Sunday, another vote in the Greek parliament, another self-imposed punishment beating as the parliament in Athens votes through fresh austerity measures.
(19) Jamie Vardy ’s having a(nother) party: he’s going to get married at Peckforton Castle in Cheshire – actually not a castle, just a big and kind-of-oldish house with crenellations – on 25 May.
(20) A nother engine breaks away from Gordon Brown's fuselage, and the damage done looks set to bring him crashing out of the sky.