- present participle of exasperate.
exasperating
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Dealing with a call center or an automated teller might have been exasperating.
From Barron's ● Apr. 14, 2026
All of this makes for an exasperating experience, but what’s most aggravating is that we’ve stood for this for so long.
From Salon ● Jan. 25, 2026
Biopics are “an exasperating genre,” Variety wrote, smushing some of “the planet’s most unorthodox personalities into a reductive, overly moralistic mold.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 30, 2025
At some forecourts in Bamako, motorists are met by a note bearing three, exasperating words - "no fuel today".
From BBC ● Nov. 11, 2025
During one long, exasperating endgame, it began to rain, and neither he nor his opponent would let the storm stay their appointed task of finishing the game.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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