He has a maddening habit of interrupting other people.
She shows a maddening inability to control her children.
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Sometimes, though, there's simply no avoiding a maddening series of bad breaks that can literally send you from first place to 19th in an instant.—ArsTechnica, 10 June 2025 In a maddening season for the Red Sox, the 25-year-old has been one of the main reasons to watch as his team has seesawed its way through 66 games.—Jen McCaffrey, New York Times, 8 June 2025 This was bricolage in the mode of postmodernism, to use a term that Jencks had a leading role in propagating, defining it in multiple competing and overlapping (some would say maddening) ways.—Glenn Adamson, Artforum, 1 June 2025 Today, the New Media Circuit resembles a maddening sprawl: countless possible routes, none guaranteed.—Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 27 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for maddening
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