All 9 Uses of
infuriate
in
The Sunlight Dialogues
- It was then that he began his infuriating prattle.†
Chpt 2 *infuriating = causing much anger or annoyance
- He wasn't whispering or making any show of speaking quietly, but the infuriating voice was almost more faint than the rain.†
Chpt 2
- Nobody wants his child run over; nevertheless, nothing is more infuriating for a man with serious business in the world than hearing behind him, as he hurries his car through congested traffic toward his office (late through no fault of his own) the yawl, like the yawl of a big angry cat, of a siren.†
Chpt 5
- And this, even more infuriating: when he'd first come up onto the tracks, miles ago now—he'd parked on the Creek Road and climbed up where the Little Tonawanda went under the railroad bridge—he'd watched a freight train pass.†
Chpt 11
- That was what made the whole thing so infuriating.†
Chpt 15
- " Again, infuriatingly, he was laughing, "—all those children," he said.†
Chpt 17infuriatingly = in a manner that causes much anger or annoyance
- It infuriated him that he couldn't snap out the answer at them.†
Chpt 18infuriated = made very angry or annoyed
- But Luke's scorn was real, and hurt her, and the callouses he'd carefully grown to wall off his nerves from other people's pain were torn away to the roots by her words; the image he thought he had sealed off—an image now familiar and tiresome, infuriating as a tubercular's cough, yet no less dreadful for his having endured it a thousand times, awake and asleep—the image of fire, leapt up again in his mind or, as it seemed, in the corners of the room: turning quickly, with a sudden bow to prove to himself as much as to them that he was still in command, he had fled.†
Chpt 21infuriating = causing much anger or annoyance
- All Figlow knew was this: he was sitting alone, no longer pretending to do paperwork, giving all his attention to the infuriatingly slow reports that came by fits and starts from the snapping, humming radio, and wondering where the devil they were with that Indian.†
Chpt 23infuriatingly = in a manner that causes much anger or annoyance
Definition:
to make very angry or annoyed