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  • adjective superlative form of mad: most mad.

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Examples

  • Have you noticed that the thing that gets Obama the maddest is telling the truth about him, his associates, or his policies.

    Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D, MO) disavows any role in spitting smear. | RedState 2010

  • Last week, amid the clouds of self-righteous humbug billowing out from Bali, Gordon Brown committed us to what I do not hesitate to call the maddest single decision ever made by British ministers.

    Archive 2007-12-01 Peter Troy 2007

  • Last week, amid the clouds of self-righteous humbug billowing out from Bali, Gordon Brown committed us to what I do not hesitate to call the maddest single decision ever made by British ministers.

    The Madest Decision by British Ministers Peter Troy 2007

  • SYKES: The people who got the maddest were the practitioners, the academic gurus, the tenured professors who felt that I was challenging the dearest values of it.

    A Nation of Victims: The Decay of the American Character 1992

  • London's Wireless festival in July was the "maddest" day of his life.

    Musicrooms.net 2010

  • There was the maddest European festival circuit we had ever done, headlining seven cities in eleven days: Lille, Barcelona, Venice, Athens, Dublin, Edinburgh, and Brussels.

    Fallin’ Up Steve Dennis 2011

  • For all his pragmatic certitude, it seemed as if he watched the play and movement of life in the hope of discovering something more about it, of discerning in its maddest writhings a something which had hitherto escaped him, — the key to its mystery, as it were, which would make all clear and plain.

    Chapter 12 2010

  • The next test of the taboo was Vietnam where both Lyndon Johnson and even Richard Nixon at his maddest decided to forgo using nukes.

    How the End Begins Ron Rosenbaum 2011

  • The funny part is, were it not so sad, the parts of the bill that would have contained costs and made insurance companies honest is what they were maddest about, and those parts are gone.

    Nelson reviewing new abortion language 2009

  • What drove Jerry the maddest were not the blows and physical torment, but the laughter.

    CHAPTER XVI 2010

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