Definitions
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
frustrate . - adjective
foiled ,stopped ,disappointed - adjective suffering from
frustration ;dissatisfied ,agitated , and/ordiscontent because one is unable to perform an action or fulfill a desire.
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- adjective disappointingly unsuccessful
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Examples
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But then, after we got past the social layer and returned to my question, he gently informed me how the term frustrated him.
Loren-Paul Caplin: Religious vs. Spiritual: Semantics Or Neurotics? Loren-Paul Caplin 2011
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Anyone who's ever tried to blood-trail a turkey knows what an excercise in frustrated futility that can be.
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In 3-D, Dolby 0.5 and 24 MP; on furious faces and hateful placards, in frustrated screams plus shallow stentorian hate mongers/hucksters/rainmakers/preying mantises up close and personal.
Jane-Howard Hammerstein: "You Can't Handle the Truth" ... Col. Jessup (a/k/a Jack Nicholson) Jane-Howard Hammerstein 2010
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Efforts to clamp down on discomfiting material result not in frustrated acquiescence but in renewed assaults on the self-importance that lies behind knee-jerk censorial action.
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Efforts to clamp down on discomfiting material result not in frustrated acquiescence but in renewed assaults on the self-importance that lies behind knee-jerk censorial action.
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As a clinician, I remain frustrated that we still can't get them to talk fluently to one another.
Tickler Systems and Thoughts on Mandating the EMR aka TBTAM 2009
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Anyone who's ever tried to blood-trail a turkey knows what an excercise in frustrated futility that can be.
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We would all like to think that you are correct on this point, but part of the reason the Police Officers who contribute to this blog are frustrated is that we already suspect that there will be no long prison sentence for anyone connected to this incident.
Policeman killed - NO STORY. Woman slapped - BIG STORY. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009
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Despite this open door, the Americans were again frustrated as Ambassador Walter Hines Page refused to assume authority for the American YMCA POW program.
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The bitterness-bs, the angry women over 50, the poor in the Appalachia region — the older activists who cut their teeth during the 50's and 60's — what makes them angry and frustrated is the thought that they will be left behind in the new political and economic constructs being discussed and also that they have been left behind for so long already and we need to fix that.
The Gap 2008
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