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feeling or showing anger the constant harassment from telemarketers finally made her good and mad

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noun

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verb

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Recent Examples of mad
Adjective
Be mad at your friend, but there is no one way to do this. Brian Moylan, Vulture, 17 Oct. 2025 The ability of the Broncos’ core four pass-rushers up front to win one-on-ones — Cooper, NFL sack leader Nik Bonitto, Zach Allen, Franklin-Myers — and the secondary’s ability to win in man coverage on the back-end has given coordinator Vance Joseph the ingredients and the gall of a mad scientist. Luca Evans, Denver Post, 16 Oct. 2025 Last year’s event featured a cemetery, haunted bar, mad scientist’s lab and an interactive shooting gallery. John Metcalfe, Mercury News, 16 Oct. 2025 Whether these experienced hands can keep up with their mad scientists is less clear. Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 14 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for mad
Recent Examples of Synonyms for mad
Noun
  • Reactions to the extraordinary news spread quickly, ranging from surprise to anger at the league itself, according to five people who work inside or closely with the NBA, all of whom were granted anonymity because they were not permitted to speak publicly about the matter.
    Andrew Greif, NBC news, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Is that your way of expressing the anger and exhaustion that so many people feel in the country right now?
    Melissa Ruggieri, USA Today, 23 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • There are other infuriating remarks, too.
    Angela Haupt, Time, 22 Oct. 2025
  • That has infuriated business leaders who complain it makes the state less competitive and drives away the wealthy.
    Fortune, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • She was resigned to her fate, helpless with indignation.
    Jack O'Connor, Outdoor Life, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Steeped in dread and indignation, Watcher is feminist horror that imagines what Rear Window would be like if Jimmy Stewart were constantly talked over and dismissed.
    Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 16 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Even if Gazans are enraged at Israel for killing nearly 70,000 Palestinians during the war, Hamas still takes part of the public blame.
    Matt Bradley, NBC news, 21 Oct. 2025
  • The incident enraged the South Koreans and ran counter to Trump’s push to lure foreign manufacturers to invest in America.
    Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 18 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The Kinahans seemed to be acting out of pure rage.
    Ed Caesar, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
  • But in 2014, rage in the streets of Ferguson, Missouri, over the killing of Michael Brown by police helped stoke a movement that shaped the next decade of American life.
    Vann R. Newkirk II, The Atlantic, 18 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • While Johnson had plenty to be pleased with, he was annoyed by the number of penalties and said the offense has to do a better job of running the football.
    Lou Ponsi, Oc Register, 25 Oct. 2025
  • They’re built not to resist developers but, as their name suggests, they’re intentionally designed, with a degree of malice, to annoy someone specific.
    Lilit Marcus, CNN Money, 24 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Little life was left in this spot where White Sage’s fury must have been severe.
    Joan Meiners, AZCentral.com, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Just a few more blocks away is the derelict CVS that has become a lightning rod of neighborhood fury, a monument to gross neglect.
    Wes Burdine, Twin Cities, 19 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Longtime prejudices have meant that Latin artists have been regarded with suspicion, doubt, and even outrage throughout music history, but these attitudes have twisted into something far more intense and sinister as a result of the current administration.
    Julyssa Lopez, Rolling Stone, 19 Oct. 2025
  • County Board supervisors outraged by the transparency failure Since the emails came to light, supervisors on the county's finance committee have grilled transit agency executives and expressed outrage about the transparency failures.
    Vanessa Swales, jsonline.com, 17 Oct. 2025

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“Mad.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mad. Accessed 27 Oct. 2025.

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