bother, bothered

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see go to the trouble (bother); hot and bothered.

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He hasn't bothered to visit Iguala, the place where the students were abducted and killed.
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The speculation that the next Bond might be black has Rushbo all hot and bothered.
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Nobody bothered to tell Mister Ham about it until the following August.
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And he scarcely bothered to hide his chief ambition: to lead his country as prime minister.
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“We are still very girly,” Jolly said, who is not bothered by the traditionally feminine nature of the trucks they drive.
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But I don't suppose Weston would bother spreading the tails out when he sat down.
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Sangree bothered her with no special attentions, and after all they were very little together.
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Great tracts of land in this part of the State are out of date, and more bother than they are worth, anywhere.
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Baroudi would probably never think of her as Englishmen thought of her, would never "bother about" her age.
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He ceased to bother his brain with Bascomb and his affairs, wrapping himself completely in the noble work of the roadster.
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