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bothered

adjective B2
  1. Annoyed; irritated.
  2. Caring about something; discomposed. · I'm not bothered if he chooses to ignore our anniversary. It's his problem.
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“It’s an extraordinary thing,” said he, “that all my life I have been collecting other people’s news, and now that a real piece of news has come my own way I am so confused and bothered that I can’t put two words together.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes, p. 74 · C1
Young Overton’s face assumed the bothered look of the man who is more accustomed to using his muscles than his wits, but by degrees, with many repetitions and obscurities which I may omit from his narrative, he laid his strange story before us.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes, p. 101 · C1
He seemed to me to be pale and bothered.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes, p. 102 · C1

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