exasperate

Example Sentences

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"Talking of such crimes as rooted in exasperated love or strong jealousy is a distortion – that uses romantic, culturally acceptable terms," the judge argues, surrounded by her research at her home in Rome.

From BBC

At one point, she bluntly, exasperatedly asks us, “Doesn’t the scandal of the greatest artist of his age, stigmatized and targeted because he was a foreigner, resonate now with the rebirth of our ordinary xenophobias?”

From New York Times

Sykes’s exasperated calm made a bit on a bizarre Trump speech unforgettable.

From Washington Post

The strategy has exasperated Republican colleagues, who have called the Democrats leading the filibuster undemocratic and unreasonable.

From New York Times

She’s in awe and slightly exasperated at how they don’t hide their traumas but ground them as a centerpiece of their creativity.

From Los Angeles Times