sense of frustration
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsenseandfrustration
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sense
noun
uk/sens/us/sens/
an ability to understand, recognize, value, or react to something, especially any of the five physical abilities to see, hear, smell, taste, ...
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frustration
noun
uk/frʌsˈtreɪ.ʃən/us/frʌsˈtreɪ.ʃən/
the feeling of being annoyed or less confident because you cannot achieve what you want, or something that makes you feel ...
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(Definition ofsenseandfrustrationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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But they convey thatsenseoffrustration, despair and sheer disbelief all onlookers felt at different times and for different reasons.
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First, they have high ecological validity, as they produced a self-describedsenseoffrustrationand negatively valenced emotion.
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Yet one puts down this admirable and thoughtful book with asenseoffrustration.
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For most, the voyage ended there but for some, the happy anticipation of arrival quickly turned to asenseoffrustrationand anticlimax when quarantine was declared.
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Bernard'ssenseoffrustrationmust have been compounded by the government's refusal to listen to his analysis of its interests.
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Thesenseoffrustrationthat is abroad in these two mining areas is almost pitiful.
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I have been deeply impressed by thesenseoffrustrationoverhanging these men.
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You said that politicians feel asenseoffrustration, not to mention cynicism.
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In the regions there is a greatsenseoffrustrationamong managerial and technical staffs because of the structure of the nationalised industry.
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Thatsenseoffrustration—to use a word which is becoming popular—is not limited to inventors.
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Nothing gives rise to a greatersenseoffrustrationthan long waiting lists.
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This led to asenseoffrustrationamong tenants of these houses.
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I move the amendment from asenseoffrustration.
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Naturally there is fatigue and exhaustion, and in some cases there is asenseoffrustrationand irritation.
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Everywhere there has been asenseoffrustrationwhich has fallen as heavily as anywhere on the clergy.
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So it is understandable that people should feel asenseoffrustrationin having three offices dealing with their lives.
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I can understand thesenseoffrustrationwhich many applicants must feel.
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I appreciate the urgency of this matter and thesenseoffrustrationin his constituency.
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We recognise the anguish that unemployment causes those who suffer it and thesenseoffrustrationand waste inherent in any level of unemployment.
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