"maddening" is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is an adjective used to describe something that is extremely annoying or irritating. Example sentence: Every day I face the maddening sound of construction outside my window.
It is a genuine linguistic affliction that causes confusion and imbues our everyday speech with a clumsiness and imprecision that can be maddening.
Of course it is annoying and very frustrating – and maddening when providers simply blame each other.
The official Elysium website – actually a pretty slick time-sink, complete with fun games and other unique extras – was hidden behind the instantly forgettable and grammatically maddening URL, ItsBetterUpThere.com.com
It is a grotesque, and maddening, injustice.
AS COURTROOM dramas go, the trial of ex-dictator José Efraín Ríos Montt for genocide and crimes against humanity has been both riveting and maddening.
"The choices that this child was making were irrational and not in her best interests," argued the state's lawyers before the court.It's simply maddening.
When the delegado slipped and fell into the street below his tormentors shouted that he had cockroach blood, according to one newspaper.For some of those who mourned the passing of the antebellum South, the sight of a man with mulatto features like Araújo Cunha holding a position of power was maddening.
Statesmen and international businessmen are not the only ones who find this isolationist streak maddening.
Neither new right nor old left, he denies that there is a need to choose either failed religion, and promises to continue his mission of "modernising" Britain no matter how much his own party may clamour to return to the true old faith.As usual, this restatement of the Blairite creed is both admirable and maddening.
They are allowed to play in the local teams, which would not be the case if they didn't understand and speak English.Would you call that also "maddening about language"?Col.
You cite the example of the "row over a local council in Flanders that wants to ban toddlers from its playgrounds if they do not understand Dutch" and you indirectly suggested this was a case of "maddening about language".
