Synonyms:
aggravation, exasperation
Meaning: an exasperated feeling of annoyance
Usage examples
Graham looked his exasperation.
This sight had been witnessed by the Florentines with growing exasperation.
"What are you about?" shouted Rostov, looking at him in an ecstasy of exasperation.
In the early days of her Costaguana life, the little lady used to clench her hands with exasperation at not being able to take the public affairs of the country as seriously as the incidental atrocity of methods deserved.
It is also reported that he sometimes impeded the celerity of harvest operations by making burlesque speeches, or worse than that, comic sermons, from the top of some tempting stump, to the delight of the hired hands and the exasperation of the farmer.
Later, as the rainy season approached its end, he was sought by his captains with proposals of remunerative raids on Spanish settlements. But to all he manifested an indifference which, as the weeks passed and the weather became settled, begot first impatience and then exasperation.