infuriating

[ in-fyoor-ee-ey-ting ]

/ ɪnˈfyʊər iˌeɪ tɪŋ /

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adjective

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

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Origin of infuriating

First recorded in 1880–85; infuriate + -ing²

in·fu·ri·at·ing·ly, adverb

The inconsistency is at best annoying and at worst infuriating.
‘Improving your ability to cancel’: How advertisers have back-loaded flexibility into their upfront deals|Tim Peterson|December 2, 2020|Digiday
Watching this movie and thinking about the historical legacies of violence and injustice the US military brought to my home islands was infuriating.
The real love interest in Netflix’s Operation Christmas Drop is the US military|Rachel Ramirez|November 23, 2020|Vox
They’re challenging but rarely infuriating, as well-tuned as many of the game’s other components.
‘Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales’: Like its movie counterparts, a confident and entertaining spectacle|Christopher Byrd|November 6, 2020|Washington Post
Yet just as worrying—and infuriating to child-labor campaigners—is that companies and cocoa traders have failed to resolve an issue that they committed to tackling nearly 20 years ago.
Big Chocolate’s child-labor problem is still far from fixed|Vivienne Walt|October 19, 2020|Fortune

It is infuriating to try, decade after decade, to solve problems through voting different politicians into office, only to be failed by both parties, again and again.
The definitive case for ending the filibuster|Ezra Klein|October 1, 2020|Vox
Infuriatingly, there is no such account to save for people who will not go to college.
The Cost of Raising a Special Needs Son|Elizabeth Picciuto|June 11, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Existing was not sweet (barring Prince Albert) but likely to be hellishly warm or worse, infuriatingly commonplace.
The Land of Look Behind|Paul Cameron Brown
Patricia grew more and more acutely and infuriatingly ironic all the while.
The Real Adventure|Henry Kitchell Webster
Overdrive was sometimes not fast enough—but solar-system drive was infuriatingly slow.
Talents, Incorporated|William Fitzgerald Jenkins
Under the sunshade it was infuriatingly like a horse on a carousel.
Sand Doom|William Fitzgerald Jenkins