have been exasperating
- present perfect progressive of exasperate.
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
It would have been exasperating if it wasn’t so hot.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 8, 2021
It certainly must have been exasperating for the general of the Continental Congress to be reduced to such expedients as tying a grandiloquent ultimatum to an arrow and shooting it into the beleaguered town.
From The Father of British Canada: a Chronicle of Carleton by Wood, William Charles Henry
They kept trotting about in circles, and avoided the warriors with a persistency that must have been exasperating to them.
From The Young Ranchers or, Fighting the Sioux by Ellis, Edward Sylvester
It was, however, none the less intolerably irksome, and would have been exasperating, I believe, even to a nature in which a powerful and genuine piety was inherent.
From Father and Son: a study of two temperaments by Gosse, Edmund
