Crossword clues for maddening
maddening
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
maddening \maddening\ adj. extremely annoying or displeasing.
Syn: annoying, exasperating, infuriating, vexing.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1743, from present participle of madden. Related: Maddeningly.
Wiktionary
1 Causing frustration or anger. 2 Leading to insanity. v
(present participle of madden English)
WordNet
adj. extremely annoying or displeasing; "his cavelier curtness of manner was exasperating"; "I've had an exasperating day"; "her infuriating indifference"; "the ceaseless tumult of the jukebox was maddening" [syn: exasperating, infuriating, vexing]
Usage examples of "maddening".
But still, in spite of all, the Indians clung to their priests -- as they said, from affection for the religious care they had bestowed, but quite as possibly from the instinctive knowledge that, between the raiding Portuguese and the maddening patriots in Asuncion, their only safeguard against slavery lay in the Jesuits.
He stroked his satiny length up and down her slit, his cockhead slickened with her own wetness, maddening her with thorough agony.
Margaret remained in maddening ignorance of whatever Gifts her hostess had, except that she knew how to monitor.
In the forest trees the jarflies and the tree-crickets and the katydids kept up their maddening chorus.
But at last he got his preliminaries settled, and left his bivouac among the maddening mosquitoes, and the slime, and the snaky tree roots, and took to the seas again in a lugsail boat, which he annexed by force of arms from its four original owners.
One of the more maddening Tampy characteristics was their steadfast and muleheaded refusal to ever speculate aloud unless and until they had absolute proof one way or the other.
The gravelly, baked soil reflected the fiery sun, and it was nearly maddening to look up at the cool blue of the mountains, with their stretches of pines and their deep indigo shadows.
Park Street station and then the maddening Green Line B Train forever west on Comm.
Her skill was such that the maddening surges of crosswinds and updrafts only bounced her a little where any other pilot would have been battered.
The result of all this misguided hysteria, say the Version A advocates, the Deregulators, is the mushrooming of giant bureaucracies whose sole effect is to hog tie business with red tape and maddening, nitpicking regulations.
And the more he looked at it, the more he experienced maddening hints of familiarity.
Roland had been listening to the muffled but still maddening sound of the todash chimes.
Globes, the maddening arrhythmic drip of the kitchen sink and the bad smell a mixture of mildew and putrid fruit.
Red Line all the way to Park Street station and then the maddening Green Line B Train forever west on Comm.
Wind was in my teeth, and the Clock ran down, and the Dog made off with me Coachwhip, but this, Trent, this begins to approach the truly maddening.