exasperate
Example Sentences
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He could exasperate editors with his strongly held opinions and his prodigal ways with an expense account.
From New York Times • Jun. 6, 2024
The issues exasperate many of the remaining businesses.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 23, 2024
“They exasperate before and after. They dwell instead in a null space, a long between. Distrust anyone who tries to pin them to the pages of a book.”
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 28, 2023
However, quite how the hosts did not manage to win will mystify and exasperate the new man at the helm.
From BBC • Oct. 18, 2022
He kicked, pounded, twisted, pushed, using his lack of size to confound and exasperate Elisha, whose damp fists, joined at the small of John’s back, soon slipped.
From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
