maddening
adjective
driving to madness or frenzy.
maddeningly
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a word derived from
maddening.
Example Sentences
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Through 58 Years in the U.S. market, Subaru has tendered some of the best that modern car building has had to offer, maddeningly packaged with some of the worst.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 2026
Figuring out the purse for 34 of the 35 graded stakes races at Santa Anita is, for horsemen anyway, maddeningly simple: Just look up the minimum purse required in North America.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 25, 2025
But patients don’t like being told something is all in their head, particularly when their lives are falling apart over a maddeningly persistent illness.
From Slate ● Dec. 19, 2025
The 23-year-old has gone from being an unquestionably talented winger, but sometimes maddeningly inconsistent, to the brilliant catalyst behind so much of their best moments this season.
From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2025
Here in Kinshasa we have a “city kitchen,” with the stove right inside the house, but it’s only a little bottle-gas burner, maddeningly sluggish after my years of cooking over roaring wood fires.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
