All 7 Uses of
exasperated
in
Silas Marner
- He had made ties for himself which robbed him of all wholesome motive, and were a constant exasperation.†
Chpt 1.3
- this interruption, which had thrown him in the rear of the hunt near the moment of glory, and under this exasperation had taken the fences more blindly.
Chpt 1.4 *exasperation = great annoyance
- Godfrey's mind was too full of Nancy Lammeter's looks and behaviour, too full of the exasperation against himself and his lot, which the sight of her always produced in him, for him to give much thought to Wildfire, or to the probabilities of Dunstan's conduct.†
Chpt 1.8
- "Has he thrown him down and broken his knees?" said Godfrey, flushed with exasperation.†
Chpt 1.8
- Like many violent and implacable men, he allowed evils to grow under favour of his own heedlessness, till they pressed upon him with exasperating force, and then he turned round with fierce severity and became unrelentingly hard.†
Chpt 1.8
- Godfrey was delighted with that little flash, and would have liked to go on and make her quarrel with him; Nancy was so exasperatingly quiet and firm.†
Chpt 1.11
- …gentlemen, conscious of unusual accomplishments, could at length be prevailed on to dance a hornpipe, and when the Squire preferred talking loudly, scattering snuff, and patting his visitors' backs, to sitting longer at the whist-table—a choice exasperating to uncle Kimble, who, being always volatile in sober business hours, became intense and bitter over cards and brandy, shuffled before his adversary's deal with a glare of suspicion, and turned up a mean trump-card with an air of…†
Chpt 1.13
Definition:
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(exasperated) greatly annoyed