exasperate

Object

• sigh: Janet Fraiser gritted her teeth to keep an exasperated sigh from escaping.
• look: And, judging by the exasperated look on my wife's face, she feels similarly.
• reader: Navigation with nous was crucial in ensuring that exasperated readers did not migrate to a lesser, larger newspaper.
• parent: Mind you, they evidently had a following; I over heard one exasperated parent saying " ANOTHER one!
• problem: This is an exasperating problem for the military historian.
• situation: If you feel that showing the red card will exasperate the situation even further, then do not do so!

Subject

• mess: I am totally exasperated by the whole sorry mess and fed up of making countless telephone calls.
• lack: You might also start to get exasperated by the lack of clarity about the cost of an item.
• behavior: You may be exasperated by the behavior of a colleague born under Libra.
• fact: In the book, when Frankie came across this problem his situation was exasperated by the fact that he never had a childhood.

Preposition: by

• mess: I am totally exasperated by the whole sorry mess and fed up of making countless telephone calls.
• behavior: You may be exasperated by the behavior of a colleague born under Libra.
• lack: You might also start to get exasperated by the lack of clarity about the cost of an item.

Modifying Another Word

• increasingly: They return to their doctor, who is becoming increasingly exasperated.
• totally: I am totally exasperated by the folks that want to remove PIs from XML.
• slightly: They have plenty of food, the CO says, slightly exasperated, they don't need more food.
• almost: In summary, we see a wide, almost exasperating range of reported phenomenology.
• sometimes: She is also kind, lovable and sometimes exasperating.
• rather: The upshot was a rather exasperated local resident shouting: " Why don't you treat us with the respect we deserve?

Preposition: at

• delay: The medical and scientific civil servants were exasperated at the delay.