be worried

be worried (third-person singular simple present is worried, present participle being worried, simple past was worried, past participle been worried)

1. (chiefly in the negative) Synonym of be bothered (“to have the enthusiasm (to do something)”)
   • 1870 April–September, Charles Dickens, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1870, →OCLC:

     […] and he had certain notches in his forehead, which looked as though Nature had been about to touch them into sensibility or refinement, when she had impatiently thrown away the chisel, and said: “I really cannot be worried to finish off this man; let him go as he is.”