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UK
/ɛɡzˈɑːspəɹˌeɪtɪŋ/
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[ US /ɪɡˈzæspɝˌeɪtɪŋ/ ]
[ US /ɪɡˈzæspɝˌeɪtɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
- making worse
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extremely annoying or displeasing
his cavelier curtness of manner was exasperating
I've had an exasperating day
her infuriating indifference
the ceaseless tumult of the jukebox was maddening
How To Use exasperating In A Sentence
- You know that moment when really liking someone turns into a radiant love - overwhelming, a little frightening and almost exasperatingly fresh?
- The film is at its most exasperating in detailing the tragic story of Eduardo "El Chino" Hernandez.
- Newly designated sergeants and corporals were conscripted to the task of squad supervision and many exasperating occasions arose when a recruit got the wrong "foots" in place and was commanded to "change the foots. The Delta of the Triple Elevens The History of Battery D, 311th Field Artillery US Army, American Expeditionary Forces
- The next 10 weeks would be the most exasperating and thrilling of my entire journalistic career.
- Hamstrung by his uncle, he was having to go through an exasperating charade in order to nobble the project. THE GWEN JOHN SCULPTURE
- What you have to do with a book, a simple, obvious, exasperating difficult thing, is, read it.
- His best work, though, is self-indulgent, redundant, and exasperating, and therein lay its charms.
- This "imbedded" piece, something we haven't seen much of since the original Iraqi invasion - showed some of our most experienced troops at their best, facing serious, daily peril and explaining the exasperating bureaucratic limitations imposed by the Pakistanis. 60 Minutes Goes "Imbedded" in Afghanistan
- The way octonions interact, however, is peculiarly exasperating and unlike anything we are familiar with from our conventional number system (see diagram).
- What I find a bit exasperating is encountering poets (of a certain age) who somehow look down on online publications as beneath a “real” publication (read print). In Praise of Online Journals : Rigoberto González : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation