as in frustrating
causing annoyance
after a few days, she found the monotonous work to be absolutely maddening
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as in disturbing
to cause to go insane or as if insane
the endless swarms of mosquitoes all but maddened the explorers
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as in infuriating
to make angry
her perpetual tardiness maddened her friends to no end
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Recent Examples of maddening
Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 21 Oct. 2024
The Buzz perpetuates a maddening control that debuted on the VW ID 4: a driver’s-door gizmo that uses three buttons to control the four power windows.
—Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press, 21 Oct. 2024
What followed was a maddening exchange of 20 emails, with Ware repeatedly asking Tomo’s customer support to cancel her subscription.
—Jeff Kauflin, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2024
The Productivity Paradox Haly’s future is snagged in a heartbreaking and maddening plot twist, one that may seem all too familiar in our Kafkaesque healthcare system.
—Naveen Rao, Forbes, 22 Oct. 2024
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Computers, at least for now, cannot quite capture the crushing surreality and maddening absurdity of modern electoral politics.
—Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 21 Oct. 2024
The Buzz perpetuates a maddening control that debuted on the VW ID 4: a driver’s-door gizmo that uses three buttons to control the four power windows.
—Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press, 21 Oct. 2024
What followed was a maddening exchange of 20 emails, with Ware repeatedly asking Tomo’s customer support to cancel her subscription.
—Jeff Kauflin, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2024
The Productivity Paradox Haly’s future is snagged in a heartbreaking and maddening plot twist, one that may seem all too familiar in our Kafkaesque healthcare system.
—Naveen Rao, Forbes, 22 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for maddening
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Kody quickly came to Robyn’s defense, further frustrating Janelle.Liza Esquibias, People.com, 4 Nov. 2024
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Not all of these ideas will pan out, but if any do, the next few years could bring an inflection point in treating some of the most frustrating and intractable diseases of our modern era.Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 4 Nov. 2024
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But more recently there have been other issues, such as one that is highly annoying: vanishing data in the Apple Notes app.David Phelan, Forbes, 21 Nov. 2024
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But there is one item on her bucket list that has been annoying elusive.Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 21 Nov. 2024
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This is exemplified by the ways in which people were tying themselves in knots to appropriately grieve Payne’s death without angering anyone critical of his alleged behavior.Lucy Ford, TIME, 21 Oct. 2024
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The new plan would do away with two of those lanes, angering some motorists and bus operators.Tori Latham, Robb Report, 17 Oct. 2024
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Vinegar, baking soda, and lemon juice can be effective and are generally less irritating.Alyssa Shaffer, Better Homes & Gardens, 23 Nov. 2024
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The cleansing agent can also be irritating and may result in severe adverse reactions when used improperly.Sherri Gordon, Health, 21 Nov. 2024
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This also avoids a brightness instability problem that can afflict the TV’s Standard mode, where the image suffers distracting brightness ‘jumps’ or ‘drops’ when an HDR image cuts abruptly between bright and dark shots.John Archer, Forbes, 20 Oct. 2024
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The boy’s life is organized around distracting himself, especially since his mother (Jodie Whittaker) works long days and nights as a nurse.Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Oct. 2024
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In court, attorneys for the state also described a disturbing scene.Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 20 Nov. 2024
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Here are two reasons behind these often disturbing experiences, according to research.Mark Travers, Forbes, 20 Nov. 2024
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Is the trend of sales taking a route that is bothering you?Hitendra Patil, Forbes, 17 Oct. 2024
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In many cases, states have stopped bothering to make legal justifications at all, the Human Rights Committee report warned.Anna Mulrine Grobe, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Oct. 2024
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“Maddening.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/maddening. Accessed 30 Nov. 2024.
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