- present participle of exasperate.
exasperating
Example Sentences
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Dealing with a call center or an automated teller might have been exasperating.
From Barron's • Apr. 14, 2026
All of this makes for an exasperating experience, but what’s most aggravating is that we’ve stood for this for so long.
From Salon • Jan. 25, 2026
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.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 5, 2026
At some forecourts in Bamako, motorists are met by a note bearing three, exasperating words - "no fuel today".
From BBC • Nov. 11, 2025
They were afraid of Yossarian and persecuted him incessandy with nagging generosity and with their exasperating insistence on doing small favors for him.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
Vocabulary lists containing exasperating
The Diary of a Young Girl
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The Last Lecture
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"The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" by Mark Twain
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