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exasperated
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The Grass is Singing
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- He was still exasperated by the attitude of the two men.†
p. 24.5exasperated = greatly annoyed
- Mary could hear them panting softly, or whining with exasperation because of the flies.†
p. 74.4 *exasperation = great annoyance
- They never cease complaining about their unhappy lot, having to deal with natives who are so exasperatingly indifferent to the welfare of the white man, working only to please themselves.†
p. 82.2
- Mary immediately lost her temper; her irritation found a permissible outlet in this exasperating native.†
p. 83.7exasperating = greatly annoying
- On a kindhearted impulse, that was half exasperation, he drove over one morning to see Dick, avoiding the house (because he did not want to meet that stuck-up idiot Mary), looking for him on the lands.†
p. 87.7exasperation = great annoyance
- Although this exasperation was so familiar to her, it annoyed her to see it in him.†
p. 158.4
- As she spoke she saw that look of exasperation grow on his face, and added hastily, "But he will do, I suppose."†
p. 161.1
- The thought of Dick's exasperation, and his warning that he could stand no more changes of servants, a challenge which she had not the vitality to face, caused her to hold herself like a taut-drawn thread, stretched between two immovable weights: that was how she felt, as if she were poised, a battleground for two contending forces.†
p. 169.1
- It was significant that he sounded neither exasperated nor angry.†
p. 199.5exasperated = greatly annoyed
Definitions:
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(1)
(exasperated) greatly annoyed
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)