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US
/ˈmædənɪŋ, ˈmædnɪŋ/
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[ UK /mˈædənɪŋ/ ]
[ UK /mˈædənɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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extremely annoying or displeasing
his cavelier curtness of manner was exasperating
I've had an exasperating day
her infuriating indifference
the ceaseless tumult of the jukebox was maddening
How To Use maddening In A Sentence
- She described him as 'maddening, but lovely' and the untidiest and clumsiest person she had met. Times, Sunday Times
- What makes similar incidents in these areas so maddening is that one hears the same story from both sides over and over again without ever finding out who was right and who was wrong.
- No, the truly maddening thing about them is the flagrancy with which they break their own rules. A one party state
- Except for the maddening crowds at every store, and except for the idiots at Roosevelt Field mall and except for the madmen on the road today, it was a stellar day.
- So ended one of the biggest and most maddening manhunts in history.
- Her carefree sloganeering can be maddeningly fatuous, occasionally making the reader feel as though he or she is stuck behind a car covered in bumper stickers.
- The drum roll lasted longer on this one and the suspense was maddening.
- The air conditioner droned in that maddening old machine way, but it was too hot to not have the thing on.
- I with a maddening sense of awkwardness, that was not much bettered by the tattle of the plainstanes, where merchant lads and others made audible comment on the cousinly ardour of young Lachie. John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn
- It is to his credit that he manages to elicit our sympathy without ever betraying the character's maddening interiority.