madden
verb (used with object)
to anger or infuriate.
have been maddening
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present perfect progressiveof madden.present perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that began in the past, has continued continuously, and is still in progress.
Example Sentences
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For coaches who thrive on meticulously planning their program’s futures, some of the sudden changes have been maddening.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 17, 2020
The bitterness of his own isolation, the ostracism that circumstance had forced upon him, would have been maddening on this night had not all rancour been tempered by the glorious achievement in the market-place.
From The Man from Brodney's by George Barr McCutcheon
It would have been maddening to have been beaten only by one run, and after such a gallant fight.
From Young Barbarians by Ian Maclaren
To any one but his son his suave acquiescence would have been maddening.
From With Edged Tools by Henry Seton Merriman
The accounts of those days must have been maddening affairs owing to the multiplicity of coinages.
From The Pirates of Malabar, and an Englishwoman in India Two Hundred Years Ago by J. (John) Biddulph
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