What is "exasperated"

Usage examples of "exasperated".

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.

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.

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.

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.

Terry spits oot, hands oan ehs hips, shakin ehs heid, pittin me in mind ay an exasperated fitba player whae expects nae justice fae a biased referee.

This tends to the discomfiture of Mr. Smallweed, who finds it so difficult to resume his object, whatever it may be, that he becomes exasperated and secretly claws the air with an impotent vindictiveness expressive of an intense desire to tear and rend the visage of Mr.

From this place--so he told himself--had emanated that policy of extortion, oppression and injustice that little by little had shouldered the ranchers from their rights, till, their backs to the wall, exasperated and despairing they had turned and fought and died.

What do you suppose stockholders can do, no matter how exasperated they may be, when their manager tells them?

Oh, she could picture that scene-the Hills and nee Hills lagging far behind an exasperated Tour Guide in the sun-fried Old Town, yes, all of the Hills standing about Jerusalem in their fashions-Uncle Alden mildly contemplating a sad ruin, Aunt Becky frowning back and forth between her Baedeker page and the discrepancies between those things described and those things not seen.

This piece of extravagance on the part of the monk exasperated me to such an extent that I felt a very strong inclination to thrash him.