All 7 Uses of
exasperated
in
Go Tell It on the Mountain
- "I done asked you," cried his father in a fearful exasperation, "to stop running your mouth.†
Chpt 1.1exasperation = great annoyance
- He kicked, pounded, twisted, pushed, using his lack of size to confound and exasperate Elisha, whose damp fists, joined at the small of John's back, soon slipped.†
Chpt 1.1 *exasperate = greatly annoy
- When he had left her, more than twenty years before, and after more than ten years of marriage, she had felt for that moment only an exhausted exasperation and a vast relief.†
Chpt 2.1exasperation = great annoyance
- She would sit in the kitchen, cold with rage and staring at the turkey, which, since Frank always bought them unplucked and with the head on, would cost her hours of exasperating, bloody labor.†
Chpt 2.1exasperating = greatly annoying
- Deborah watched him out of the corner of her eye, as was her silent and exasperating habit.†
Chpt 2.2
- He sighed with exasperation, feeling himself begin to tremble.†
Chpt 2.2exasperation = great annoyance
- He, at that moment, to her exasperated relief, became the most cheerful of infants.†
Chpt 2.3exasperated = greatly annoyed