maddening

Example Sentences

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Making matters more maddening, replacement units appear to be in short supply.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 12, 2026

Gates has assembled a stimulating, illuminating, maddening, saddening, but often inspiring, story of their relations with the world and one another.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 3, 2026

It’s time to break the maddening cycle by getting back to basics, heading into the new year.

From Barron's • Dec. 19, 2025

Efforts to force a lasting legacy are maddening, but ultimately, they will fail.

From Salon • Dec. 19, 2025

Of this he told his wife, and told how later he heard the choir of maddening Seirenes, coasted the Wandering Rocks, Kharybdis’ pool and the fiend Skylla who takes toll of men.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer