bothered

Example Sentences

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Steve Caputo, a Trump supporter visiting from New Jersey for the first time in decades, said he’d expected the renovation to be done by now but wasn’t bothered by the mess.

From Slate • Jun. 19, 2026

Oddly, it wasn’t the monopoly that bothered him.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 12, 2026

The event "was so low-profile that neither the Denver Post nor Rocky Mountain News even bothered to send a reporter," noted Brian Trembath in a Denver Public Library blog.

From Barron's • Jun. 12, 2026

But I am not actually that bothered whether I am right or wrong.

From BBC • Jun. 10, 2026

Alt-A was just what they called crappy mortgage loans for which they hadn’t even bothered to acquire the proper documents—to verify the borrower’s income, say.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis