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Example sentences for "exasperatingly"

Lexicographically close words:
exarchs; exasperate; exasperated; exasperates; exasperating; exasperation; exasperations; excavate; excavated; excavates
  1. I am told that she is exasperatingly virtuous, abstemious and exceedingly well- dressed, and all on an income derived from thirty thousand dollars that came out of the Tresslyn treasure chest.

  2. He was feeling warm, and the sight of young Quinney so exasperatingly cool and smug in his black clothes made him warmer.

  3. But this sort of talk became exasperatingly monotonous: "Feelin' fine, are you?

  4. And Morris grinned exasperatingly at his sister.

  5. He no longer made pretense of studying the lessons Dick laid out for him, only grinned exasperatingly when taken to task, and, in short, openly defied authority.

  6. Under these conditions progress to the coast was exasperatingly slow, and finally was summarily prevented by the drastic order of the German Government demanding the internment of every Britisher in the country.

  7. But that engine was, or at least appeared to be, exceedingly heavy, while the roads seemed to be exasperatingly difficult, the wheels having a magnetic attraction for the sand.

  8. But Mrs. Dormer-Smith had been most exasperatingly in the wrong, and he was very angry with her.

  9. His ideas about things, his attitude towards things, were wholly and exasperatingly incomprehensible to her.

  10. It is exasperatingly easy, and exasperatingly difficult.

  11. What she felt and thought she concealed with chatter, and too many of her notes were now exasperatingly echoes of her husband's.

  12. He leaned forward the better to see her, for the gas jet was flickering, and she turned away with a half smile that was exasperatingly silly.

  13. He is frequently a man of character, but through that character runs this strange, irritating thread of conceit, which blinds our eyes to whatever of real worth may be within, because of his exasperatingly confident exterior.

  14. Stella always remained cool and exasperatingly debonair under his rebukes, whereas he felt himself growing hot and awkward.

  15. I take pains to let Mr. Flint see that I at least am not taken in; but he only smiles in that exasperatingly non-committal way of his, as if it mattered little enough to him what I thought one way or the other.

  16. I don't know," said Silver in his exasperatingly lazy way.

  17. She doesn't know her catechism," answered the mild vicar in his exasperatingly mild way.

  18. The gawky seminarist was silent, with an angry air which implied that the arguments one was compelled to follow here were exasperatingly beneath one's criticism.

  19. Still, this mode of communication was exasperatingly slow and attended by some risks after all, and Pavel had recourse to it only in case of extreme necessity, although to the prisoner it was a welcome diversion.

  20. And coming, as she did, to Pomfret Court at a moment when Lionel was feeling exasperatingly hipped and bored with himself she served alike as tonic and narcotic.

  21. Of course there was a rush to the outlying ranch, whose few remaining occupants grinned exasperatingly and shrugged their shoulders, but gave no information.

  22. Untoward events had thrown this establishment into a state of excited confusion: their nature Lanyard could not surmise, but their conjunction with his designs was exasperatingly inopportune.

  23. The man got up; but Blensop contrived exasperatingly to keep between him and the windows.

  24. Never before in his relation with any human being, man or woman, had he been so exasperatingly at a disadvantage as with her.

  25. He thought her wonderfully, exasperatingly self-possessed; his own blood was throbbing fiercely and her physical charms gave him the delicious, terrifying tremors of a boy on the brink of his first love leap.


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