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

As to the guide-books, I think they are a sufficiently flatulent botheration in themselves, without being discussed.

From The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 3, 1836-1870 by Dickens, Mamie

Luckily the family are away just now—or it would be even a greater botheration than it is!”

From Good Old Anna by Lowndes, Marie Belloc