maddening
adjectiveDefinition of maddening
1 : tending to craze
2a : tending to infuriate
b : tending to vex : irritating
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abrasive, aggravating, annoying, bothersome, chafing, disturbing, exasperating, frustrating, galling, irksome, irritating, nettlesome, nettling, peeving, pesky, pestiferous, pestilent, pestilential, pesty, rankling, riling, vexatious, vexing
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The maddening inconsistency of putting has in recent years spurred the growth of a relatively new kind of specialist role: putting coach. — Brian Costa, WSJ, "Even for Jordan Spieth, Putting Is a Fickle Skill," 13 June 2018 That's what made their actual performance all the more maddening. — Matt Velazquez, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, "2017-'18 Milwaukee Bucks team grades," 6 May 2018 Strzok's continuing denials of bias are as incredible and maddening as today's hearing. — Fox News, "Rudy Giuliani: Strzok's defense is ridiculous, pathetic," 13 July 2018 The game’s core mechanic is so arbitrary and unfair that a good game of Sorry! quickly devolves into a series of maddening reversals and betrayals. — Scott Meslow, GQ, "Sorry! Is the Dumb Children’s Board Game That’s Fun If You Talk a Lot of Trash," 4 July 2018 That makes ending this whole awful episode much more difficult, and Trump's whole posture here even more maddening, for his party — and quite unnecessarily so. — Aaron Blake, Washington Post, "The most stunning part of Trump’s separating-families gambit: He seems to have no real plan," 19 June 2018 Underneath it all, though, some moments will be maddening — even as Walton refuses to show it. — Bryce Miller, sandiegouniontribune.com, "Memo to Luke Walton: Here's comes LeBron ... and all that comes with it," 2 July 2018 Sunday’s play closed with another penalty-kick shootout, the most maddening, frustrating and heart-stopping way for a knockout game to be decided. — Kevin Baxter, latimes.com, "Russia provides another improbable World Cup surprise with elimination of Spain," 1 July 2018 An ideal way to get into a brilliant political mindset for an otherwise maddening election season. — Adam Rathe, Town & Country, "The 5 Books You Need to Know About This Month," 3 Oct. 2016These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'maddening.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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