What's the difference between bothered and puzzled?

Bothered


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of 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.

Puzzled


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Puzzle

Example Sentences:

  • (1) More evil than Clocky , the alarm clock that rolls away when you reach out to silence it, or the Puzzle Alarm , which makes you complete a simple puzzle before it'll go quiet, the Money Shredding Alarm Clock methodically destroys your cash unless you rouse yourself.
  • (2) Our data and the model developed to interpret them in terms of fluctuations provide an explanation of the puzzling sharp reduction of water order near the chain-ordering phase transition.
  • (3) And David Ngog was a pointless signing too – one which puzzled us all.
  • (4) That's so far from how my mind works that I find it puzzling.
  • (5) This latest one continued developer Revolution Software’s run, sending you on the hunt for a stolen painting with puzzles and a well-worked storyline to hold your attention.
  • (6) Unexplained physical distress, when associated with alexithymia, becomes a diagnostic puzzle leading to prolonged investigation, ineffective treatment, and psychiatric referral.
  • (7) This scheme is used to rationalize previously puzzling data about the enzyme mechanism.
  • (8) With wearable computing just around the corner cracking integration with you, and indeed the organic-body, is critical for Apple and a final piece in the puzzle.
  • (9) Leanne Bowden, a mother of three on her way home on the school run, looks puzzled by the inquiry.
  • (10) The treatment of obesity remains a puzzling challenge because long-term maintenance of weight loss--one of the most suitable goals--is rarely achieved with conventional methods.
  • (11) It includes a reference to Banks's puzzling repeated insistence in media interviews that he "did not come up the river in a cabbage boat".
  • (12) In his letter responding to the resignation, the prime minister calls himself “puzzled and disappointed”.
  • (13) A persistent puzzle in our understanding of hemostasis has been the absence of hemorrhagic symptoms in the majority of patients with Hageman trait, the hereditary deficiency of Hageman factor (factor XII).
  • (14) "What was popular then was the puzzle: such qualities as psychological truth or even atmospheric location were secondary to it.
  • (15) A more pronounced decrease was produced by subjects working on puzzles than those working on mental calculation and by subjects working on easy tasks than those working on difficult tasks when the easy preceded the difficult ones.
  • (16) "We find it puzzling that the Department of Health would want a group that is opposed to abortion and provides no sexual health services on its sexual health forum."
  • (17) This MA lag of at least 2 years is consistent with the MA lag previously found on strategic games and puzzles.
  • (18) The boys attempted to solve two different sets of 10 find-a-word puzzles, one set following exposure to solvable puzzles, and one set following exposure to insolvable puzzles.
  • (19) That’s where blaming government failure fits into his ideological jigsaw puzzle.
  • (20) Some hypotheses about the cause of schizophrenia are based on the puzzling tendency for mental illness to affect the same sex when two close relatives become psychiatrically ill. Sex-concordance rates were examined in 71 schizophrenic probands, who had at least one first-degree relative suffering from the same disorder, in order to test this tendency in a population of recently admitted patients.