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frustrating, ppl. a.|frʌˈstreɪtɪŋ|
[f. frustrate v. + -ing2.]
That frustrates, disappoints, or balks; characterized by frustration. Hence fruˈstratingly adv.
1872Geo. Eliot Middlem. I. ii. xviii. 324 Lydgate was feeling the hampering threadlike pressure of small social conditions, and their frustrating complexity. 1944Pacific Reporter (1957) 2nd Ser. CLIII. 50/2 The courts have required a promisor..to prove that the risk of the frustrating event was not reasonably foreseeable. 1955North Western Reporter (1957) 2nd Ser. LXXX. 116/2 Schooling has been an impossible task for him, and at the best frustratingly detrimental. 1982W. Boyd Ice-Cream War ii. ii. 108 Temple spent the next few days in an increasingly frustrating attempt to find someone who would admit he was a ‘problem’. 1989M. Spufford Celebration v. 67 There is, frustratingly, almost nothing you can do without literally a leg to stand on. |