exasperate
Example Sentences
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Though this material provides context, the book’s habit of teasing the titular riot several times and then jumping to another topic gets a bit exasperating.
But Bini Suresh, a dietitian, who has spent 20 years working with obese and overweight patients, is exasperated by the idea.
From BBC
Biopics are “an exasperating genre,” Variety wrote, smushing some of “the planet’s most unorthodox personalities into a reductive, overly moralistic mold.”
To further exasperate the lingering injury bug, Reaves left the game after the first half because of left calf soreness.
From Los Angeles Times
Avuncular and experienced, he advises her to be more likable, which seems futile, because everyone she meets quickly gets exasperated by her combination of earnest idealism and hall-monitor insistence.
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