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Frustration

noun

The feeling that accompanies an experience of being thwarted in attaining your goals. Synonym: defeat.

An act of hindering someone's plans or efforts. Synonyms: foiling, thwarting.

A feeling of annoyance at being hindered or criticized.

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"Frustration" Quotes from Famous Books

... salts. She was one of those unfortunate women of a past generation, who, in offering no allurement to the masculine eye, appeared to defeat the single end for which woman was formed. As her very right to existence lay in her possible power to attract, the denial of that power by nature, or the frustration of it by circumstances, had deprived her, almost from the cradle, of her only authoritative reason for being. Her small, short-sighted eyes, below a false front which revealed rather than obscured her bare temples, flitted from object to object as though in the vain pursuit of some outside justification ...

— The Miller Of Old Church • Ellen Glasgow

... Emil's gaze of acute pathos—human life aware of its present frustration. Then suddenly Emil became once more an animated and hungry monkey with no ...

— The Wrong Twin • Harry Leon Wilson

... no choice. They teleported at once into the presence of the two nearby natives—and met with frustration ...

— Traders Risk • Roger Dee

... with the State was considered a traitor. South Carolina was not considered a safe place for a white man who was opposed to secession after the ordinance was passed. This probably accounts for the statement in the last part of the affidavit relative to the frustration of the plans. ...

— The Journal of Negro History, Volume 6, 1921 • Various

... and weeks into months without the slightest inkling of Miriam's whereabouts to set at rest the fear that my rash pursuit had caused her death, I myself grew utterly despondent. Like all who embark on daring ventures, I had not counted on continuous frustration. The idea that I might waste a lifetime in the wilderness without accomplishing anything had never entered my mind. Week after week, the scouts dispatched in every direction came back without one word of the fugitives, ...

— Lords of the North • A. C. Laut

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