exasperated

Speech parts

1. exasperated - Adjective

2. exasperated - Verb

3. exasperated - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

greatly annoyed; out of patience

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Examples

We continue to be exasperated by the view, apparently gaining momentum in certain circles, that armed robbery is okay as long as nobody gets hurt! The proper solution to armed robbery is a dead robber, on the scene. Jeff Cooper

There's nothing that makes you more insane than family. Or more happy. Or more exasperated. Or more... secure. Jim Butcher

The growth of new ideas is more difficult and lengthy the deeper they are rotted in life. Resistance to them is the more obsitnate and exasperated the more persistent their growth is. Naum Gabo

There are extraordinary situations which require extraordinary interposition. An exasperated people, who feel that they possess power, are not easily restrained within limits strictly regular. Thomas Jefferson

The Socialists, and I am still one, although an exasperated one, never brought forward the question of irredentism, but left it to the Republicans. We are in favour of a national war. But there are also reasons, purely socialist in character, which spur us on towards intervention. Benito Mussolini

Ammu loved her children (of course), but their wide-eyed vulnerability and their willingness to love people who didn't really love them exasperated her and sometimes made her want to hurt them-- just as an education, a precaution. Arundhati Roy

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