- present participle of exasperate.
exasperating
Example Sentences
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Dealing with a call center or an automated teller might have been exasperating.
From Barron's • Apr. 14, 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
Even at Carmen’s most exasperating, she could still surprise Ortega with a simple, poignant question: “How are you doing in your life, Roxie?”
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 13, 2025
She would sit in the kitchen, cold with rage and staring at the turkey, which, since Frank always bought them unplucked and with the head on, would cost her hours of exasperating, bloody labor.
From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin
Vocabulary lists containing exasperating
The Diary of a Young Girl
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The Last Lecture
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"The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" by Mark Twain
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