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UK
/ɛɡzˈɑːspəɹˌeɪtɪŋ/
]
[ US /ɪɡˈzæspɝˌeɪtɪŋ/ ]
[ US /ɪɡˈzæspɝˌeɪtɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
- making worse
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extremely annoying or displeasing
his cavelier curtness of manner was exasperating
I've had an exasperating day
her infuriating indifference
the ceaseless tumult of the jukebox was maddening
How To Use exasperating In A Sentence
- You know that moment when really liking someone turns into a radiant love - overwhelming, a little frightening and almost exasperatingly fresh?
- There are no words for this kind of exasperating character, and yet one quickly realizes that if Woody had played it, this scene would have been hilarious instead of pathetic and aggravating. Archive 2008-11-01
- It's always more complicated than that, as annoying people are known to say with exasperating regularity.
- Singh's affairs with his putter, in all its guises, have been exasperating.
- I don't make a big deal out of them calling me by my first name, but it's just kind of exasperating since if I was an older looking man like the other professor I highly doubt they would call me by my first name or assume I was a TA. Emails to undergrads
- Education, then, becomes an exasperating game of constant catchup.
- From a historian's perspective, aspects of Paton's presentist writing style are exasperating.
- Our team's failure is very exasperating.
- A boxer's exuberance can sometimes be exasperating.
- Penelope purposefully marched into the throng of suitors, looking for the familiar and somewhat exasperating figure.