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  • adjective extremely annoying or displeasing.

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  • verb Present participle of madden.
  • adjective Causing frustration or anger.
  • adjective Leading to insanity.

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  • adjective extremely annoying or displeasing

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Examples

  • What's maddening is that with all of our technology a lot of the paperwork side of this SHOULD BE instant (speed of the internet and all of that).

    Florida Official Buried In Concealed-Carry Requests 2009

  • What's maddening is that with all of our technology a lot of the paperwork side of this SHOULD BE instant (speed of the internet and all of that).

    Florida Official Buried In Concealed-Carry Requests 2009

  • Let it suffice that many of my pain - maddening waking hours were devoted to dreams of vengeance on Cecil

    Chapter 8 2010

  • Although far, far more maddening is when they do things like, I'm ten feet from the wall and they know I'm five times faster if they can, you know, SEE ME AT ALL, and they'll push off instead of letting me do my flip turn and move ahead of them.

    Book Day! jimhines 2007

  • And how maddening is it that he just keeps saying that Iraq is the central front in the war on terror, without realizing that's his fault.

    10/28/2005 2005

  • The world was steeped in maddening loveliness of sound and colour.

    Rilla of Ingleside Lucy Maud 1921

  • Let it suffice that many of my pain - maddening waking hours were devoted to dreams of vengeance on Cecil Winwood.

    Chapter 8 1915

  • Aunt Olivia's kitten, a fat, bewhiskered creature, looking as if it were cut out of black velvet, shared our vigil and purred in maddening peace of mind.

    Chronicles of Avonlea Lucy Maud 1912

  • Next eight capeadores, whose duty consists in maddening the bull and urging it to fight by flinging gay-colored capas or capes in its face.

    Six Months in Mexico 1888

  • These base Scots, ever fertile in maddening suggestions, have made me even suspect that Bruce had other reasons for his apparently generous risk of himself; than a love of justice.

    The Scottish Chiefs 1875

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