Maddening

Examples

• It's perfectly maddening to think of those lovely limes, sighed Amy, with the air of a martyr. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• It's maddening. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Ha--ha--she laughed to herself, so frightened that she was trying to laugh it off--ha--ha, how maddening it was, to be sure, to be sure! D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• The situation to him must have been a maddening one. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• The confusion grew--their looks of sorrow changed to mockery; they nodded their heads in time to the music, whose clang became maddening. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Maddening church bells of all degrees of dissonance, sharp and flat, cracked and clear, fast and slow, made the brick-and-mortar echoes hideous. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• It will be absolutely dangerous to torment me with these maddening scruples. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The man's insolence was maddening, but we could not resent it. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• She had a maddening faculty of assuming a light of her own, which excluded the reality, and within which she looked radiant as if in sunshine. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• The combinations and occurrences of this senseless mode of intercourse were maddening to him. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.

Edited by Janet