flustrated
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of flustrated
Example Sentences
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Mama was always fair, even when flustrated to distraction.
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
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I never was so astonished and flustrated in my life.
From The Cash Boy by Alger, Horatio
“Well, I’ve seen you lose yours more’n a few times, when you got flustrated and excited; and it didn’t seem to hurt much,” Step Hen retorted.
From The Boy Scouts in the Maine Woods The New Test for the Silver Fox Patrol by Carter, Herbert
We did not feel so flustrated when Will Schley and Horace Finley came in later.
From Village Life in America 1852-1872 Including the period of the American Civil War as told in the diary of a school-girl by Richards, Caroline Cowles
Why, wouldn't anybody think that when it all comes from the same place, or pretty nigh the same place anyway, that they would get kinder flustrated and mixed up once in a while?
From Samantha at Saratoga by Holley, Marietta
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