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Exasperation

noun

An exasperated feeling of annoyance. Synonym: aggravation.

Actions that cause great irritation (or even anger).

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"Exasperation" Quotes from Famous Books

... he took to a fit and a vortex and an exasperation of running for which no description may be found. The thumping of his big boots grew as con-tinuous as the pattering of hailstones on a roof, and the wind of his passage blew trees down. The beasts ...

— Irish Fairy Tales • James Stephens

... this was within the bounds of barbarous enthusiasm; but horrible were the persecutions of the Jews, which were committed in most countries with even greater exasperation than in the twelfth century, during the first crusades. In every destructive pestilence the common people at first attribute the mortality to poison. On whom, then, was vengeance so likely to fall as on the Jews, the usurers and the strangers who lived ...

— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07 • Various

... too. I expect that nice young lady in 'Frisco is a-waitin' anxiously to hear from him. Plague take that rascal Mosely!" he broke out, in fresh exasperation. ...

— The Young Explorer • Horatio Alger

... said Adelaide, feeling that she must change the subject or show her exasperation, yet unable to find any subject which Janet would not adorn with refined and cultured views. "Isn't Ross, ...

— The Second Generation • David Graham Phillips

... had been a timid endeavour at peace-making which foes called shuffling, and friends could only call weakness, so that it added to the general exasperation. Then came the Archdeacon's investigation, which elucidated the Curate's moral integrity, but showed how money subscribed for charity had gone in the church expenses, that ought to have been otherwise provided for. It was allowed that the Rector ...

— The Pillars of the House, V1 • Charlotte M. Yonge

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