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View definitions for exasperating

exasperating

adjective as in bothersome

adjective as in maddening

adjective as in nerve-racking

adjective as in nettlesome

adjective as in teasing

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Example Sentences

Images of crowded bars and boardwalks exasperated public health officials as the virus crept from populated metro centers to beach towns, infecting visitors who then took it back to their communities.

Palmer's inability to reach a synthesis in almost any area of his life is what makes him exasperating.

It reads like a fully realized epistolary novel, by turns exasperating and poignant and always funny.

But the ugly scramble was exasperating—and leaves us facing yet another showdown before spring, says John Avlon.

While exasperating his own side, Gingrich was fascinated by the 42nd president.

It was exasperating, it was humiliating but, I am ashamed to admit it today, it was also somewhat flattering.

My failure to accomplish the desired result is grievously exasperating, and I feel deeply humiliated.

Several circumstances at this time combined to make this escape peculiarly exasperating to the Confederates.

My pampered pet is an exasperating little sneak that cannot be trusted for a minute.

They kept trotting about in circles, and avoided the warriors with a persistency that must have been exasperating to them.

What a tremendous jar that would give Bland's exasperating complacency.

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On this page you'll find 357 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to exasperating, such as: aggravating, annoying, distressing, disturbing, inconvenient, and irritating.

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

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