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US
/ˌɛkˌsæspɝˈeɪʃən/
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[ UK /ɛɡzˌɑːspəɹˈeɪʃən/ ]
[ UK /ɛɡzˌɑːspəɹˈeɪʃən/ ]
NOUN
- actions that cause great irritation (or even anger)
- an exasperated feeling of annoyance
How To Use exasperation In A Sentence
- The young man raised his hands in exasperation - the calls were coming in heavy. THE UNORTHODOX MURDER OF RABBI MOSS
- He seems to feel duty-bound to provoke a reaction whether it is outrage, exasperation, outright hostility or unreserved admiration.
- Ryan growled with exasperation and pulled the covers back over him, even though he was stifling hot.
- It is a sweet and pretty countenance that can become contorted into a Munchian shriek, a child's importunate obstinacy, a beleaguered housewife's exasperation, a hectoring soldier's grimace, or anything else.
- No opportunity for zaniness is knowingly passed up, to the exasperation of the long-suffering staff.
- Mahoney clenched his fist in exasperation.
- However, the exasperation over repeat offenders is completely reasonable.
- Such exasperation may have led to posters being stolen and vandalised but there could be another reason.
- Here a note of exasperation and irritation sometimes slips in.
- However, this is only my revenge for much exasperation and deploration that they would never come away from their pestiferous walls, -- where, after all, they had a right to stay, and will not be blamed by the candid and unbebullet-whizzed reader that they did stay. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 27, January, 1860