To a gardener there is nothing more exasperating than a hose that just isn't long enough. From LearnThat.org. [Cecil Roberts.]
His cavelier curtness of manner was exasperating. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Verb (used with object) : He was exasperated by the senseless delays. From Dictionary.com.
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). From Wordnik.com. [In Praise of Online Journals : Rigoberto González : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation] Reference
He said it was "exasperating" the full assembly sat only two afternoons a week, and then often finished early. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-05-01] Reference
And this debate doesn't save any money, which is why it is kind of exasperating to some of us who really want to cut spending. From Wordnik.com. [Coalition of senators challenges GOP on earmarks] Reference
"This debate doesn't save any money," McConnell said, "which is why it's kind of exasperating to go some of us who really want to cut spending.". From Wordnik.com. [WSJ.com: What's News US] Reference
Mr. Stephen McKenna provides us with the same kind of exasperating entertainment that we get at games from watching a skilful and unscrupulous veteran. From Wordnik.com. [When Winter Comes to Main Street] Reference
"exasperating" take on Amy Taubin -- all veteran critics, and our seniors by several years. From Wordnik.com. Reference
" This debate doesn ' t save any money, " McConnell said, " which is why it ' s kind of exasperating to go some of us who really want to cut spending. From Wordnik.com. [New Push to Ban Earmarks in Senate] Reference
It’s just that the separation between the institutions that can provide resources and the activist groups that could use it is kind of exasperating, sometimes. From Wordnik.com. [Meet Dana Walsh (R CAND, CA-08). | RedState] Reference
The deniers are just too monumentally exasperating. From Wordnik.com. [Read between the lines] Reference
The tactics of the southerners were exceedingly exasperating. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Abraham Lincoln] Reference
In reply Gratz offered an exasperating shrug of the shoulders. From Wordnik.com. [The Flaw in the Sapphire] Reference
"Say at once that you think me exasperating," laughed the lady. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
But not even the exasperating teasing that is fairly represented by. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Abraham Lincoln] Reference
But that perk might also come as exasperating news to many citizens. From Wordnik.com. [Who Says There's No Free Lunch?] Reference
When you're young, it can be incredibly exasperating. From Wordnik.com. [Adrift] Reference
He had been in many a pickle before, but never in one quite so exasperating. From Wordnik.com. [The Flaw in the Sapphire] Reference
It is perfectly exasperating to see prairie chicken all around us on the snow. From Wordnik.com. [Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888] Reference
That is one of the most exasperating and human things about a gasolene-engine. From Wordnik.com. [Opportunities in Aviation] Reference
That they may not become like their fathers, a perverse and exasperating generation. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 21: Psalms The Challoner Revision] Reference
Yes, Promises Written in Water is purely exasperating and abstracted to the nth degree. From Wordnik.com. [Promises Written in Water] Reference
This is often puzzling, sometimes exasperating, to Westerners for whom written laws loom large. From Wordnik.com. [Limits Of Democracy] Reference
Finding and keeping new talent has become the most exasperating of tasks for companies in Japan. From Wordnik.com. [Desperately Seeing Akio] Reference
We have all watched the U.S. debt markets grind to an exasperating halt in the last three years. From Wordnik.com. [Mark Britton: Student Loans: Avoid the Hangover] Reference
This could make for exasperating management, but it gave him more options and great political mobility. From Wordnik.com. [What FDR Teaches Us] Reference
So that the case was rendered more exasperating by the passage, in 1850, of another fugitive slave law. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Abraham Lincoln] Reference
"It was very interesting," complied Betty, with exasperating deliberation, and eyes brimming over with fun. From Wordnik.com. [The Outdoor Girls in Army Service Or, doing their bit for the soldier boys] Reference
After 700-odd pages in Hamilton's stimulating, exasperating company, even Aaron Burr can't destroy the interest. From Wordnik.com. [ALEXANDER THE GREAT] Reference
The squatters, relying for protection on the troops near by, perpetrated outrages of the most exasperating character. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7] Reference
With a pertinacity most exasperating to tyrants and infidels, but most welcome to the friends of human rights, Northern. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865] Reference
The administration zigged and zagged, exasperating its allies and presenting the Republicans with a fat political target. From Wordnik.com. [A Sly Game Of 'Liar's Poker'] Reference
It could have been exasperating, too, but – apart from Barnes's annoying habit of calling the writer "Fordy" – it wasn't. From Wordnik.com. [Radio review: Ford Madox Ford and France] Reference
"Thunder and lightning!" cried Dennis as he reached the exasperating announcement in italics at the bottom of the dickey back. From Wordnik.com. [The Flaw in the Sapphire] Reference
Every New Year I am reminded of one of the strongest reasons why I cling to this tradition of Torah despite the exasperating parts. From Wordnik.com. [Peter Ochs, Ph.D.: Renewing Abraham's Children in the New Year and Liberating Them from the Old] Reference
The man smiled, in that cool way, so exasperating always to her, and lifting one hand, began to tell off the months on his fingers. From Wordnik.com. [Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter] Reference
"Well," said Will, opening the letter which had not been sealed, with exasperating deliberation, "we shall see -- what we shall see.". From Wordnik.com. [The Outdoor Girls in Army Service Or, doing their bit for the soldier boys] Reference
The Silvio Pellico official, during these exasperating and tiresome hours, sometimes regretted not having simply succeeded his father. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
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