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"examples": [
{
"text": "I can't be bothered to clean the house today."
},
{
"text": "He can't be bothered drying all those dishes."
},
{
"ref": "1986, Vladimir Naumovich Zharkov, translated by William B. Hubbard, Interior Structure of the Earth and Planets, CRC Press, page 273",
"text": "An egg and rasher of bacon for breakfast supply quite enough nitrogenous food for the day. Sometimes I have a treat. A cauliflower, etc. But generally I can't be bothered.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1991, Raymond Buckland, Scottish Witchcraft: The History and Magick of the Picts, Llewellyn Worldwide, page 81",
"text": "This takes effort. It can be a lot of work. So, you see, magick is not an easy short-cut to achieving something because you can't be bothered to get it any other way.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1992, Victoria Branden, In Defence of Plain English: The Decline and Fall of Literacy in Canada, Dundurn, page 88",
"text": "I've been using a computer instead of a typewriter for four years now, but I can't speak the language at all. I don't need it, and I can't be bothered unless it's going to be useful. The only kind of mouse I recognize is the four-legged variety, and I can't tell a bit from a byte.",
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],
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"To have the enthusiasm (to do something)."
],
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"(chiefly in the negative) To have the enthusiasm (to do something)."
],
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"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "have enthusiasm",
"word": "gide"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "have enthusiasm",
"word": "vaivautua"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "have enthusiasm",
"word": "bí gafa"
},
{
"code": "it",
"english": "di",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "have enthusiasm",
"word": "aver voglia"
},
{
"code": "pdc",
"lang": "Pennsylvania German",
"sense": "have enthusiasm",
"word": "meinde"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "have enthusiasm",
"word": "estar animado"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "have enthusiasm",
"word": "palla"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "have enthusiasm",
"word": "orka"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "have enthusiasm",
"word": "idas"
}
]
}
],
"word": "be bothered"
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"examples": [
{
"text": "I can't be bothered to clean the house today."
},
{
"text": "He can't be bothered drying all those dishes."
},
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"ref": "1986, Vladimir Naumovich Zharkov, translated by William B. Hubbard, Interior Structure of the Earth and Planets, CRC Press, page 273",
"text": "An egg and rasher of bacon for breakfast supply quite enough nitrogenous food for the day. Sometimes I have a treat. A cauliflower, etc. But generally I can't be bothered.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1991, Raymond Buckland, Scottish Witchcraft: The History and Magick of the Picts, Llewellyn Worldwide, page 81",
"text": "This takes effort. It can be a lot of work. So, you see, magick is not an easy short-cut to achieving something because you can't be bothered to get it any other way.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1992, Victoria Branden, In Defence of Plain English: The Decline and Fall of Literacy in Canada, Dundurn, page 88",
"text": "I've been using a computer instead of a typewriter for four years now, but I can't speak the language at all. I don't need it, and I can't be bothered unless it's going to be useful. The only kind of mouse I recognize is the four-legged variety, and I can't tell a bit from a byte.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"To have the enthusiasm (to do something)."
],
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"(chiefly in the negative) To have the enthusiasm (to do something)."
],
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"in the negative"
]
}
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"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "have enthusiasm",
"word": "gide"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "have enthusiasm",
"word": "vaivautua"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "have enthusiasm",
"word": "bí gafa"
},
{
"code": "it",
"english": "di",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "have enthusiasm",
"word": "aver voglia"
},
{
"code": "pdc",
"lang": "Pennsylvania German",
"sense": "have enthusiasm",
"word": "meinde"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "have enthusiasm",
"word": "estar animado"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "have enthusiasm",
"word": "palla"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "have enthusiasm",
"word": "orka"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "have enthusiasm",
"word": "idas"
}
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"word": "be bothered"
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