be amused vs amused with

The phrases 'be amused' and 'amused with' are not directly comparable as they serve different purposes. 'Be amused' is used to describe someone experiencing amusement, while 'amused with' is not a common phrase in English. It is more common to use 'amused by' to indicate the source of the amusement.

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be amused

This phrase is correct and commonly used in English to describe someone experiencing amusement.

Use 'be amused' when you want to express that someone is finding something funny or entertaining.

Examples:

She was amused by his jokes.
I am easily amused by silly things.
The children were amused by the clown's performance.

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He's a womanizing buffoon, but I think you'll be amused by his presumption.
He's a womanizing buffoon, but I think you'll be amused by his presumption.
I don't think Mr. Kowalski will be amused.
I don't think he will be amused.
But I think you'll be amused and engaged from cover to cover.
He amuses her, and she likes to be amused.
It would be amused... if never I step again land sign.
But first, as I have been victorious this week in battle, I wish to be amused.
Mr. Brant may be able to fool some people with that phony shooting gag... but I've seen it pulled far too often even to be amused.
Do I seem to be amused by you today?
Do I seem to be amused by you today?
Not for nothing, but I thought he would be amused by it,
Not for nothing, but I thought he would be amused by it,
You could easily... not be amused, or something.
You'd be amused if I were to tell you that I knew you before you were born.
When it grows, single I... ...I always thought that he would be amused to be... ...of those people that they paint the nails and others...
The Baudelaire, Mallarme... you'll be amused with that.
The only thing that Queen Victoria would not be amused by in modern dictionaries is our inclusion of the F-word, which has happened in American dictionaries since 1965.
Wrong side of the slope, but I think you'll be amused by its impertinence.
Only a nation of uneducated rednecks would be amused by such cowboy drivel.

Alternatives:

find amusing
be entertained
be tickled
be delighted
be entertained

amused with

This phrase is not commonly used in English. It is more appropriate to use 'amused by' to indicate the source of the amusement.

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The Baudelaire, Mallarme... you'll be amused with that.
I hope you amused yourself with Mitzi.
He amused us with funny stories.
Drink it in one gulp and you'll feel bliss greater than Solomon when he amused himself with his 1,000 concubines.
We have amused ourselves with a pile of reports, but we have no idea what has happened to these initiatives; they have disappeared.
Until now probably she amused herself by confiding with her animals.
Sitting on a blanket with her amused expression.
We may get away with one amused judge and one very irritated college freshman.
Mr President, Mr Berlusconi, at the opening of the Intergovernmental Conference, you amused your colleagues with a joke about how you might make the people happy.
They amused each other and were in turn amused.
They try to keep us amused.
Yeah. They try to keep us amused.
But I think you'll be amused and engaged from cover to cover.
Makes you always seem a little amused.
Just the sort of thing that amused him.
No-one is amused by the suffering of others.
But the Jade Warlord was not amused.
The organization is not so amused.
In fact, Hitchcock himself would have been amused at the strange confluence of circumstances.
Aristotle, in particular, he was not amused.

Alternatives:

amused by
entertained by
tickled by
delighted by
entertained by

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