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Frustration

noun

The feeling that accompanies an experience of being thwarted in attaining your goals. Synonym: defeat.

An act of hindering someone's plans or efforts. Synonyms: foiling, thwarting.

A feeling of annoyance at being hindered or criticized.

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"Frustration" Quotes from Famous Books

... the way back in his chair, his face a mask of disappointment and frustration. "Malone," he said, "I wish I'd never heard of this case. I wish I'd been retired or died before it ever came up. I've been a police officer in New York for a long time, and I wish this case had waited a few more years ...

— The Impossibles • Gordon Randall Garrett

... other hand, seems to me to exude morality—not least, when it parts with its head to save its life. There is no better preacher in the vegetable garden. It is the very Chrysostom of the gospel of frustration—the gospel that a great loss may be a great gain—the gospel that through their repressions men may all the ...

— The Pleasures of Ignorance • Robert Lynd

... Measures that have been taken. I am pleasd to hear that a provincial Congress is proposd, and cannot but promise my self that the firm manly and persevering Opposition of that single province will operate to the total frustration of the villainous Designs of ...

— The Writings of Samuel Adams, vol. III. • Samuel Adams

... up out of the mud, shaking his head and grinning stupidly. It was very unkind of Kueelo to treat him like this. He watched the Martian's departing figure. He made no effort to follow—not at once—not until a strange new emotion, part frustration and part despair, rose up in his breast, and close upon that the dawning realization that he was being cheated of ...

— One Purple Hope! • Henry Hasse

... which she may never have formulated, but which, I am very sure, lie in her heart, too deep for any utterance but that of tears. If I know anything of village people I know this, that they shape their lives according to Nature, and are outraged to the root of their being by the frustration of Nature's laws and the stultification of man's function in the scheme of things. What the function of man is, what the power, what the dignity have been well ...

— The Village Wife's Lament • Maurice Hewlett

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