Thenceforth she bore the campaigner's taunts with stolid and aggravating silence, making that lady wish time and again that Lizzie were " her child," and she " would soon teach her manners." "Caught in a Trap" by John C. Hutcheson

But you must get the pause right; and you will find it the most troublesome and aggravating and uncertain thing you ever undertook. "How Tell a Story and Others" by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) Last Updated: February 18, 2009

The other is by moral dishonesty- forcing or aggravating acute needs, and taking an unfair advantage of them, blackmailing a man by his critical wants. "The Desert Fiddler" by William H. Hamby