infuriating

[ in-fyoo r-ee-ey-ting ]

/ ɪnˈfyʊər iˌeɪ tɪŋ /

causing or tending to cause anger or outrage; maddening: His delay is infuriating.

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First recorded in 1880–85; infuriate + -ing²

in·fu·ri·at·ing·ly, adverb

Infuriatingly, there is no such account to save for people who will not go to college.
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Patricia grew more and more acutely and infuriatingly ironic all the while.
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Under the sunshade it was infuriatingly like a horse on a carousel.
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Overdrive was sometimes not fast enough—but solar-system drive was infuriatingly slow.
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Existing was not sweet (barring Prince Albert) but likely to be hellishly warm or worse, infuriatingly commonplace.
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