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The term "bugged by" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you are feeling annoyed or irritated about something. For example: "I was bugged by the sound of the train passing by my window every 30 minutes."
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So have MPs been bugged by MI5?
It's "pain, no gain" for cows, which give less milk when bugged by flies.
All the while, she believed her apartment was bugged by the FBI.
But the dialogue felt hacky, and I was bugged by what seemed like anti-hero clichés.
"I understand why people are bugged by McDonough; they're jealous of his access to the president.
It follows allegations last year that Merkel's phone was bugged by American agents.
I suggest that she must be bugged by that, but she seems remarkably sanguine.
More important, he'd talked too wise — especially when being bugged by the F.B.I.
He was bugged by the magazine since the second or third issue.
However, he is probably too busy worrying about being bugged by MI5 and CIA".
Yet they were bugged by an unanswerable and untestable question: Do we really know what we're talking about?
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