Thesaurus / bothered
EXAMPLE SENTENCES FROM THE WEB
Sangree bothered her with no special attentions, and after all they were very little together.
THREE MORE JOHN SILENCE STORIESALGERNON BLACKWOOD
As I said, the place must be made to pay, that's the first point; the second is, that I am not to be bothered.
THE PIT TOWN CORONET, VOLUME II (OF 3)CHARLES JAMES WILLS
Yet, when I was a young man, I never bothered my head about royalty, but I was as full of wild fancies as a balloon is of wind.
THE WHALE AND THE GRASSHOPPERSEUMAS O'BRIEN
She liked well enough to have a friend drop in and talk to her when she was on duty, but she hated to be bothered about books.
SUMMEREDITH WHARTON
Their footsteps, for they no longer bothered to tread silently, sounded like thunder in their ears.
THE ADVENTURE GIRLS AT K BAR OCLAIR BLANK
He had got the cradle blade and said he would kill either of them if they bothered him.
There was only one thing in life that bothered Tootles greatly, and that was the getting out of bed in the morning.
THE WOMAN GIVESOWEN JOHNSON
He is bothered with considering how he feels, or what he or somebody else will like to see on his paper.
ENGLISH: COMPOSITION AND LITERATUREW. F. (WILLIAM FRANKLIN) WEBSTER
The board bothered her, for she couldn't make a head-on attack on the fence, but it didn't bother her long.
THE RED COW AND HER FRIENDSPETER MCARTHUR
Their statements bothered him—especially the Red Fox's evil hints and insinuations about Hale's purposes one day at the mill.
THE TRAIL OF THE LONESOME PINEJOHN FOX, JR.
WORDS RELATED TO BOTHERED
- afraid
- agitated
- annoyed
- apprehensive
- basket case
- bothered
- concerned
- distressed
- disturbed
- edgy
- excitable
- fidgety
- fitful
- flustered
- fussy
- hesitant
- high-strung
- hysterical
- irritable
- jittery
- jumpy
- nervy
- neurotic
- on edge
- overwrought
- querulous
- restive
- ruffled
- sensitive
- shaky
- shrinking
- shy
- skittish
- snappish
- solicitous
- spooked
- taut
- tense
- timid
- timorous
- troubled
- twitchy
- uneasy
- unrestful
- unstrung
- upset
- uptight
- volatile
- weak
- wired
- worried
- afraid
- agitated
- annoyed
- apprehensive
- basket case
- bothered
- concerned
- distressed
- disturbed
- edgy
- excitable
- fidgety
- fitful
- flustered
- fussy
- hesitant
- high-strung
- hysterical
- irritable
- jittery
- jumpy
- nervy
- neurotic
- on edge
- overwrought
- querulous
- restive
- ruffled
- sensitive
- shaky
- shrinking
- shy
- skittish
- snappish
- solicitous
- spooked
- taut
- tense
- timid
- timorous
- troubled
- twitchy
- uneasy
- unrestful
- unstrung
- upset
- uptight
- volatile
- weak
- wired
- worried
- afraid
- agitated
- alarmed
- all nerves
- anguished
- anxious
- apprehensive
- bothered
- constrained
- dismayed
- disquieted
- disturbed
- edgy
- fearful
- fidgety
- fretful
- harassed
- ill at ease
- impatient
- in turmoil
- insecure
- irascible
- irritable
- jittery
- jumpy
- nervous
- on edge
- on the qui vive
- palpitant
- peevish
- perplexed
- perturbed
- precarious
- restive
- restless
- shaken
- shaky
- strained
- suspicious
- tense
- tormented
- troubled
- unquiet
- unsettled
- unstable
- upset
- vexed
- worried
- wrung
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