Used in a Sentence

bothers

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for bothers.

Editorial note

If the boiler-plate is what bothers you then you could create the appropiated macros to tailor your taste.

Examples16
Definitions4
Parts of speech1

Quick take

To do something which is of negligible inconvenience.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of bothers gathered in one view.

verb

To do something which is of negligible inconvenience.

verb

(transitive) To annoy, to disturb, to irritate; to be troublesome to, to make trouble for.

verb

(intransitive or reflexive) To feel care or concern; to burden or inconvenience oneself out of concern.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for bothers.

verb

To do something which is of negligible inconvenience.

verb

(transitive) To annoy, to disturb, to irritate; to be troublesome to, to make trouble for.

verb

(intransitive or reflexive) To feel care or concern; to burden or inconvenience oneself out of concern.

verb

(intransitive, catenative) To take the trouble, to trouble oneself (to do something).

Example sentences

1

If the boiler-plate is what bothers you then you could create the appropiated macros to tailor your taste.

2

There's very much a tendency for feminist activists to throw their femme sisters under the bus, and it bothers me.

3

The thing that really bothers me about the autonomous weapons stuff is the potential for tyranny.

4

It greatly bothers me that such effort is put into the content but such lip service has been paid to the presentation.

5

It also really bothers me that in ruby you can invoke a function on a null value to see if its null (myvar.nil?).

6

It is just not something that bothers them enough to care about.

7

No one even bothers debating who has the best hardware build quality.

8

So here's something that bothers me about this kind of blog...

9

If it bothers you so much, find a different revenue source.

10

The idea of an operating system integrating with services like that still bothers me even though it is done in Mac OS X and Ubuntu.

11

If the font bothers you then you are doing it wrong.

12

I think that's what bothers me most about using SHA1(k, nonce, password) as a hash.

Quote examples

1

TBH: I ask this already owning a MacBook Air 11":) It's not the weight that bothers me.

2

Meanwhile, the original guy is getting pissed that this idiot CEO is getting all of this press as the "inventor." This bothers him far more than the money.

3

The "like-minded individuals" thing always bothers me.

4

The other possibility would be to make the "code" object respond to a method that tells it how many times to execute: { puts "Hello, alternate Ruby" }.do_times(10) It might be more intuitive to do so if the first object you have is the code you want to repeat, but it doesn't read as nicely:P > It also really bothers me that in ruby you can invoke a function on a null value to see if its null (myvar.nil?).

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use bothers in a sentence?

If the boiler-plate is what bothers you then you could create the appropiated macros to tailor your taste.

What does bothers mean?

To do something which is of negligible inconvenience.

What part of speech is bothers?

bothers is commonly used as verb.