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Annoying or irritating.

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  • To a gardener there is nothing more exasperating than a hose that just isn't long enough.
  • His cavelier curtness of manner was exasperating
  • Verb (used with object) : He was exasperated by the senseless delays
  • What I find a bit exasperating is encountering poets (of a certain age) who somehow look down on online publications as beneath a “real” publication (read print).
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