[ adj ] extremely annoying or displeasing <adj.all> his cavelier curtness of manner was exasperatingI've had an exasperating day her infuriating indifference the ceaseless tumult of the jukebox was maddening
Madden \Mad"den\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Maddened}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Maddening}.] 1. To make mad; to drive to madness; to drive to insanity; to craze.
2. To make very angry; to enrage; to excite violently with passion.
maddening \maddening\ adj. extremely annoying or displeasing.
The sight of 1,000 children's books clamouring for our attention in a medium size bookshop is almost as maddening and confusing as the sight of 1,000 children clamouring for our attention in that same bookshop.
Dealing with the NSA can be maddening.
It's a little maddening, this telegraphing of punches, as is director Kevin Hooks' terrible staging of a scene in which one epitome of decency is shot down by California National Guardsmen.
While hard luck stories like Mr. Sosa's aren't an Argentine preserve, this is a country whose anomalies can be literally maddening.
Beguiling and maddening in equal measure, this film about a state of crisis in modern Europe embodies the state of crisis in modern European cinema.
And minor characters, especially the relatives who harbour the killer, are two-dimensional villains. These are maddening shortcomings, since they could have been rectified in the time it takes to pan along a grimy Manchester street.
It was maddening, but it was also the greatest fun.
What makes that so difficult, he adds, is the "maddening refusal of the opposition to compromise" on the issue of a new national constitution.