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- Hannah exasperated the women in the town—the "good" women, who said, "One thing I can't stand is a nasty woman" the whores, who were hard put to find trade among black men anyway and who resented Hannah's generosity; the middling women, who had both husbands and affairs, because Hannah seemed too unlike them, having no passion attached to her relationships and being wholly incapable of jealousy.†
Chpt 1921exasperated = greatly annoyed
- Nel was getting exasperated with her arrogance, with her lying at death's door still smart-talking.†
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Definitions:
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(1)
(exasperated) greatly annoyed
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)