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Synonyms for frustrated

Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

Synonyms for frustrated

disappointingly unsuccessful

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And we frequently see with the ocular perspective of the police frustratedly chasing him, rather than of Johnny as he escapes.
Odoul appears as the troupe's neurotic producer, supplying some mild amusement in scenes where he frustratedly tries to bring focus to rehearsals.
But nearly 20 minutes later--as I still waited frustratedly to pay for my merchandise--I realized that price alone does not win a war.
About 2 hours into the ordeal I frustratedly looked back at the deer, wondering if he was exacting some sort of revenge on me.
Losing 5-2 to the Welshman and having failed to sink a number of makeable pots, White missed a black off the spot and frustratedly lashed out at the cue ball, which cannoned into the black and sent it spinning off the table.
"Gnaw[ing] the rectitude of his life" (biting frustratedly at its hard bony texture), he feels that "[n]o one wanted him; he was outcast from life's feast" (107).
With no public talk--no civic discourse--permitted to them, the people of Orwell's imaginary society are left with "the choice of either expressing themselves within the conventional grooves the language allows them, or remaining frustratedly inarticulate."(1)
The first is an adaptable, site-specific celebrity spoof, with Karttunen and Yli-Maunula as gilded movie-star grotesques who slither, simper and frustratedly mug before a what-else-but-adoring public.
As a result, most antiglobalist sentiment has percolated frustratedly outside the confines of normal, two-party politics.
If anything he tends to overdichotomize matters, and risks leaving the reader faced with seemingly irreconcilable positions and asking frustratedly, "why bother?" On the other hand, he frequently breaks open a problem into a series of direct questions, questionnaires from which historians can identify those which most directly address their own concerns and practices.
In his review, Jose Bowen frustratedly conceded Beethoven's centrality and the inability to dislodge him from this position: "There is no Archimedean point from which we can either evaluate or reevaluate Beethoven."(1) What this perplexity indicates, I think, is that many musicologists actually have moved beyond a Beethoven paradigm but have not offered an alternative paradigm of sufficient authority to replace it.
A typical managerial response is often to tighten up on constraints that can lead to frustratedly inspired acts of sabotage against plants or procedures[15].