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impatience

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It’s not like we’re unaware of how absurdly fortunate we are even as we slog through this second pandemic year with weary impatience.

From Time

I regret putting other climbers at risk, and I regret the impatience I felt.

Maybe it’s the cold and snow blanketing so much more of the country than usual, or maybe it’s our collective impatience with a slow vaccine rollout as we approach the once-unthinkable milestone of a year under varying degrees of lockdown.

From Time

I know that impatience with corporate voice systems is a tiresome, hackneyed gripe.

This time, the impatience was evident on both sides of the aisle.

American women expressed their support and impatience when fighting puritanism and conservatism using Femen tactics.

I called to her, but she slipped away with a tormenting smile at my helpless hands, and I followed her with some impatience.

I waited and waited, closing my eyes with fear and impatience, but all was silent as the grave.

Similarly, how little time Shostakovich spent on his work elucidates the fever and impatience of his mind.

It was characterized by apocalyptic and incendiary rhetoric, anger, impatience, and revolutionary zeal.

I waited three months more, in great impatience, then sent him back to the same post, to see if there might be a reply.

Liszt looked at it, and to her fright and dismay cried out in a fit of impatience, "No, I won't hear it!"

Felipe was so full of impatience to continue his search, that he hardly listened to the Father's words.

But he could not bear the reflection, and with fevered impatience, he hurried through the business of the morning.

Perhaps their course is wiser than that which hot impatience would prompt—nay, I believe it is.

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On this page you'll find 71 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to impatience, such as: anger, annoyance, anxiety, eagerness, edginess, and excitement.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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