All 10 Uses of
exasperated
in
Of Human Bondage
- She could never, never do this, and corresponded with him continually, and he was making every effort to induce an exasperating father to change his mind.†
Chpt 23-24exasperating = greatly annoying
- The air was sickly with the unnatural passion which all felt about them, and the nerves of the little household seemed to grow exasperated.†
Chpt 29-30 *exasperated = greatly annoyed
- It exasperated him that she should force him to tell lies, and he knew that he reddened when he answered that there was a demonstration at the hospital which he was bound to go to.†
Chpt 69-70
- She was continually wondering how she would manage when it grew older; and she was exasperated with herself for being such a fool as to have it at all.†
Chpt 73-74
- He talked fluently and well, not without humour, but with a slightly dogmatic manner: he was a journalist, it appeared, and had some thing amusing to say on every topic that was touched upon; but it exasperated Philip to find himself edged out of the conversation.†
Chpt 79-80
- The last thing he heard, just before the end of the summer session, was that Griffiths, urbanity had given way at length under the exasperation of the constant persecution.†
Chpt 79-80exasperation = great annoyance
- It exasperated him because it showed that she was not listening to anything he said, and yet, if he was silent, she reproached him for sulkiness.†
Chpt 93-94exasperated = greatly annoyed
- Philip was exasperated by Mildred's stupidity; but he was so indifferent to her now that it was only at times she made him angry.†
Chpt 95-96
- Mildred was driven by Philip's behaviour to a pitch of strange exasperation.†
Chpt 95-96exasperation = great annoyance
- He was so cold now that it exasperated her.†
Chpt 95-96exasperated = greatly annoyed