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Maddening

adjective

Extremely annoying or displeasing. Synonyms: exasperating, infuriating, vexing. "I've had an exasperating day" , "Her infuriating indifference" , "The ceaseless tumult of the jukebox was maddening"

Madden

verb

(past & past part. maddened; pres. part. maddening)

Cause to go crazy; cause to lose one's mind. Synonym: craze.

Drive up the wall; go on someone's nerves.

Make mad.

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"Maddening" Quotes from Famous Books

... drunk last night." A few months later he resigned his position and went west, hoping to break the spell of his habit. But no mountain was high enough, nor cavern dark enough for him to hide from his mad pursuer. He returned to Louisville and gave himself up to the maddening bowl. His wife left him and went to a country home which she had saved out of her wealth. One night when he was sleeping drunk in one room, his old mother in another said: "Oh God, is my cup of sorrow not yet full?" The pitying angel pushed ajar the golden gates ...

— Wit, Humor, Reason, Rhetoric, Prose, Poetry and Story Woven into Eight Popular Lectures • George W. Bain

... breath. How maddening to have his happy thoughts so rudely broken! In a flash he was hard ...

— Valley of Wild Horses • Zane Grey

... the other side," he continued, quickly. "Sometimes it seems as though the love for these things is a beautiful delusion, a maddening, unreal thing. Then I know that my God is not their God, that my thoughts would be heresy to them. I feel that I want to cast off the strange passionate love for the place which holds me here, to go out into ...

— The Survivor • E.Phillips Oppenheim

... reason, had been chosen as a place of refuge, instead of the easily defensible and well-stored magazine. Our visit to this scene of suffering and disaster was more harrowing than it is in the power of words to express; the sights which met our eyes, and the reflections they gave rise to, were quite maddening, and could not but increase tenfold the feelings of animosity and desire for vengeance which the disloyalty and barbarity of the mutineers in other places had aroused in the hearts of our British soldiers. Tresses of hair, pieces of ladies' dresses, books crumpled and torn, bits of work and scraps ...

— Forty-one years in India - From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief • Frederick Sleigh Roberts

... conflict between love of gossip and disapproval of Shingon priests that now made a paltry battlefield of the old dame's mind. The former was almost sure to win. The priest must have thought this, too, for he finished his rice in maddening tranquillity, and then stirred slightly as if to go. Mata's speech flowed forth ...

— The Dragon Painter • Mary McNeil Fenollosa

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