god-botherer
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.13 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Example Sentences
- "[Gary] Bishop suggests that he and his team were not dismissed as a bunch of interfering God-botherers because of the way they started up: quietly, no banners, no choruses of What A Friend We Have In Jesus, no fanfares from a Salvation Army band. They talked to anyone who happened to be around."
- "Public intellectuals do not exist; public debate is rare, except on issues that transgress religious dogma. Hawaii is noted for its multitude of contentious God-botherers."
- "I didn’t grow up religious, and even now I’m nervous to tell my old-school lefty grandfather — who has never had much time for God-botherers — that his gay, progressive grandson starts every morning with black coffee and Bible study."