bother
Example Sentences
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It still bothers me that Leo never apologized for ruining my sketchbook.
From Literature
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She didn’t bother to hide that she was mad.
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Some users didn’t bother hiding that they were Americans, openly discussing their Polymarket trading on X.
But if you do not need a particular seat and you are not bothered about sitting with your travel companions, you can just let the airline allocate you a place.
From BBC
The answer couldn’t simply be “clockwise”—or why bother asking?
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.