Thesaurus / aggravation
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His Game 4 injury had tilted this first-round series in Phoenix’s direction, and its aggravation ended the Lakers’ title defense.
LAKERS’ TITLE DEFENSE CRUMBLES WITH ANTHONY DAVIS SIDELINED AS SUNS ELIMINATE REIGNING CHAMPSBEN GOLLIVERJUNE 4, 2021WASHINGTON POSTTo do that, you have to put up with the aggravation, the late-night calls, the dumb questions.
MICHAEL JORDAN TO PRESENT KOBE BRYANT AT POSTHUMOUS HALL OF FAME INDUCTIONBEN GOLLIVERAPRIL 15, 2021WASHINGTON POSTThe limiting of crowds in a pandemic has allowed breezy rides toward stadiums and maybe even sighing at the lack of normal aggravation.
SUPER BOWL HIGHLIGHTS: BUCS CELEBRATE CHAMPIONSHIP, TOM BRADY WINS MVPDES BIELER, MARK MASKE, CHUCK CULPEPPERFEBRUARY 8, 2021WASHINGTON POSTIf you ignore this rule, you might one day find yourself the victim of a scam operation, with months of aggravation ahead as you try to straighten out your life and finances.
HINTS FROM HELOISE: HEARING AIDS AND MASKSHELOISE HELOISEJANUARY 1, 2021WASHINGTON POSTThe tariffs are the latest aggravation in rapidly deteriorating relations between Australia and its largest trading partner, China.
CHINA SLAPS 200% ANTI-DUMPING TARIFFS ON AUSTRALIAN WINE AS RELATIONS CONTINUE TO SOUREAMONBARRETTNOVEMBER 27, 2020FORTUNESometimes it comes in literal sobriety, sometimes in derisive travesti, sometimes in tragic aggravation.
CHECKMATEJOSEPH SHERIDAN LE FANUWe'll visit this third party and if we strike out we'd better leave town for a few days to avoid a lot of aggravation.
HOODED DETECTIVE, VOLUME III NO. 2, JANUARY, 1942VARIOUSAnother aggravation in her case was that she had an active temperament and strong mind.
GIRLS AND WOMENHARRIET E. PAINE (AKA E. CHESTER}Such was the state of his mind, when his ordinary maladies had the serious aggravation of a violent fit of the gout.
CAMILLAFANNY BURNEYAmong the mitigating circumstances I should be inclined to name even those which you bring in aggravation.
LEONORAMARIA EDGEWORTHWORDS RELATED TO AGGRAVATION
- alertness
- cautions
- circumspection
- concentrations
- concerns
- conscientiousness
- considerations
- diligences
- directions
- discriminations
- efforts
- enthusiasms
- exactness
- exertions
- fastidiousness
- forethought
- heed
- interests
- managements
- meticulousness
- niceties
- pains
- particularities
- precautions
- prudence
- regard
- scrupulousnesses
- solicitude
- thoughts
- troubles
- vigilance
- wariness
- watchfulness
- ado
- aggravation
- annoyance
- anxiety
- bafflement
- bother
- care
- charge
- complication
- crisis
- depression
- discouragement
- distress
- embarrassment
- emergency
- exigency
- frustration
- grievance
- hangup
- harassment
- imbroglio
- inconvenience
- irritation
- jam
- maze
- mess
- millstone
- misery
- oppression
- perplexity
- pickle
- pinch
- predicament
- pressure
- puzzle
- quandary
- ramification
- responsibility
- scrape
- setback
- strain
- strait
- stress
- strife
- struggle
- to-do
- trouble
- vicissitude
- weight
- worry
- aggravation
- annoyance
- awkwardness
- bothersomeness
- cumbersomeness
- difficulty
- disadvantage
- discomfort
- disruption
- disturbance
- drawback
- exasperation
- fuss
- hindrance
- incommodity
- nuisance
- pain
- stew
- trial
- trouble
- troublesomeness
- uneasiness
- unfitness
- unhandiness
- unsuitableness
- untimeliness
- unwieldiness
- upset
- vexation
- aggravation
- annoyance
- awkwardness
- bothersomeness
- cumbersomeness
- difficulty
- disadvantage
- discomfort
- disruption
- disturbance
- drawback
- exasperation
- fuss
- hindrance
- incommodiousness
- nuisance
- pain
- stew
- trial
- trouble
- troublesomeness
- uneasiness
- unfitness
- unhandiness
- unsuitableness
- untimeliness
- unwieldiness
- upset
- vexation
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