All 7 Uses of
exasperated
in
Bleak House
- These exasperating questions so inflamed his mind and the minds of Oswald and Francis that they all pinched me at once, and in a dreadfully expert way— screwing up such little pieces of my arms that I could hardly forbear crying out.†
Chpt 7-9
- Beadle goes into various shops and parlours, examining the inhabitants, always shutting the door first, and by exclusion, delay, and general idiotcy exasperating the public.†
Chpt 10-12 *
- In the name of—of brimstone, why?" says Grandfather Smallweed with a plain appearance of exasperation.†
Chpt 19-21
- This tends to the discomfiture of Mr. Smallweed, who finds it so difficult to resume his object, whatever it may be, that he becomes exasperated and secretly claws the air with an impotent vindictiveness expressive of an intense desire to tear and rend the visage of Mr. George.†
Chpt 25-27
- "Will somebody give me a quart pot?" exclaims her exasperated husband, looking helplessly about him and finding no missile within his reach.†
Chpt 31-33
- My mother, though highly exasperating to the feelings, is actuated by maternal dictates.†
Chpt 37-39
- Volumnia, not being supposed to know (and indeed not knowing) what is the matter, has found it a ticklish task to offer appropriate observations and consequently has supplied their place with distracting smoothings of the bed-linen, elaborate locomotion on tiptoe, vigilant peeping at her kinsman's eyes, and one exasperating whisper to herself of, "He is asleep."†
Chpt 58-60
Definition:
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(exasperated) greatly annoyed