- present participle of madden.
maddening
Example Sentences
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For the visitors, the productivity was a maddening mirror image.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026
Zwick: The book has a bunch of cool stories that are fun to read, inspiring in a lot of cases, and sometimes maddening.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 21, 2026
I’ve come to think of it as a practical, action-oriented cousin of intuitive eating, a framework I find genuinely generous but occasionally maddening in its abstraction.
From Salon ● Sep. 15, 2026
A maddening feature of the “is Kevin Warsh too dovish?” debate in his first months is how it misses the point of his chairmanship.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
Fitzsimmons realized that he was confronted with a behavioral problem at least as maddening as Hard Tack’s murderousness: pathological indolence.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
