arsed

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arsed

arsed (comparative more arsed, superlative most arsed)

(Commonwealth, vulgar, slang, chiefly in the negative) Bothered; willing to make an effort.
Synonyms: fucked, (minced oath) asked, (Australia) sacked

I can’t be arsed to get out of bed today.

We asked John if he wanted to come down the pub with us, but he couldn’t be arsed.
- 2008, Lynn Broadbent, Infinite Ideas Staff, Be Arsed: 365 Brilliant Ideas for Getting Off Your Backside and Living Life to the Full‎^[1]:
- 2008, Guy Cullen, Loose Ends, page 2:
  You can keep all the macho bollocks that goes with the job. I can’t be arsed who thinks what of me to be perfectly honest and I have no time for those that are.
- 2011, Ray Banks, Beast of Burden, page 133:
  […] but here’s the way you’re supposed to run it: make out like it’ll be a long, drawn out process, that you can’t be arsed and that they shouldn’t be arsed because it’ll probably end up doing fuck all except getting a copper pissed off at them.
(vulgar, in combinations) Having a particular kind of arse
a big-arsed man

The term arsed, when used to mean bothered is not used attributively: a person who is bothered is not an arsed person.