Both Uses of
aggravate
in
The House of Mirth
- The result was apt to be an irreducible combination of persons having no other quality in common than their abstinence from bridge, and the antagonisms developed in a group lacking the one taste which might have amalgamated them, were in this case aggravated by bad weather, and by the ill-concealed boredom of their host and hostess.†
Chpt 1.12
- Her week of idleness had brought home to her with exaggerated force these small aggravations of the boarding-house world, and she yearned for that other luxurious world, whose machinery is so carefully concealed that one scene flows into another without perceptible agency.†
Chpt 2.11 *
Definition:
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(aggravate as in: she aggravates me) annoy or irritate