What is "exasperate"

Usage examples of "exasperate".

Railway to Baliani, the post-boat to Assouan, and then two days on a camel in the Libyan desert, with an Ababdeh guide, and three baggage-camels to tie one down to their own exasperating pace.

And as exasperated as Adams was with him, as critical as he sounded, he refused to let the friendship slip away.

Aras, holding a sizzling pan in one hand, gave Ade an exasperated look and motioned him to the table.

On some particular occasions, when the magistrates were exasperated by some personal motives of interest or resentment, the rules of prudence, and perhaps of decency, to overturn the altars, to pour out imprecations against the emperors, or to strike the judge as he sat on his tribunal, it may be presumed, that every mode of torture which cruelty could invent, or constancy could endure, was exhausted on those devoted victims.

If, on the other hand, we recollect the universal toleration of Polytheism, as it was invariably maintained by the faith of the people, the incredulity of philosophers, and the policy of the Roman senate and emperors, we are at a loss to discover what new offence the Christians had committed, what new provocation could exasperate the mild indifference of antiquity, and what new motives could urge the Roman princes, who beheld without concern a thousand forms of religion subsisting in peace under their gentle sway, to inflict a severe punishment on any part of their subjects, who had chosen for themselves a singular but an inoffensive mode of faith and worship.

His fondly exasperated headshake scarcely enlightened her as to how to interpret this cryptic remark.

Young Irelanders, and most of the Old Irelanders, were exasperated, and in their speeches and newspapers denounced Lamartine as the enemy of liberty, the sycophant of England, and the incubus of the French provisional government.

But somehow, as appealing as her champagne colored locks and china blue eyes were, she lacked the fire and sparkle of the exasperating Lexia Cappello.

Duchesneau and his partisans with circulating libels against him, and who say, like Frontenac himself, that the intendant used every means to exasperate him, in order to make material for accusations.

With an exasperated look at Tamika, he strode to his console and checked incoming memos from the past week.

Caught in midair, Grant threw her an exasperated look and thwacked the saltshaker down.

Russian Army and of life in Semipalatinsk were much more oppressive and exasperating than those he had lived through previously.

The unprovoked rebellion with which the Romans rewarded his services, exasperated his haughty spirit.

Exasperated by this apparent neglect, the Sarmatians soon forgot, with the levity of barbarians, the services which they had so lately received, and the dangers which still threatened their safety.

The inability to make a noise is one of the most exasperating features of Shadowland I envy a small boy with a drum.