0 the feeling of being annoyed, especially because you can do nothing to solve a problem:
There is growing exasperation within the government at the failure of these policies to reduce unemployment.
After ten hours of fruitless negotiations, he stormed out of the meeting in exasperation.
It may seem unfair to focus on the negative aspects of this book, but reading it provoked a fair degree of both disappointment and exasperation.
The hostility summary code included anger, exasperation, blame, contempt, and criticism.
It denotes the limitation and exasperation with existing strategies and engagement by other groupings.
From the beginning up to the time of writing he seems to be remembered with a mixture of affection and exasperation.
What is more, that such exasperation was often expressed in strident terms.
She shakes her head in exasperation and begins to undo her coat as she walks.
The exasperations they harvest from this loyalty to the dead, to memories of victims of injustice, are bitter indeed.
Industrialists' support for reform was based more on their ' exasperation ' about ' endless bureaucratic procedures and delays ' regarding access to and allocation of foreign currency (ibid.).