botheration

Example Sentences

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But he never wants to stop taking the mic, at the Comedy Store or across the country, and churning his botheration into laughs.

From Washington Post • Nov. 13, 2019

With his simplicity and shrewdness and "gesture of botheration," he is a unique and lovable literary creation.

From Time Magazine Archive

“Don’t ever do that to me again! That’s about all the botheration a body can stand for one day!”

From "Stella by Starlight" by Sharon M. Draper

I am sorry that all this page is filled with this botheration, when I have a thousand truer and better things that I want to talk to you about. 

From Letters of Edward FitzGerald in two volumes, Vol. 1 by Wright, William Aldis

He must take his daily ration Of catalogue vexation, And endless botheration With ceaseless complication Of decimal notation, Or Cutter combination.

From A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries by Spofford, Ainsworth Rand