Definition of maddeningly in English:
maddeningly
adverb ˈmad(ə)nɪŋliˈmæd(ə)nɪŋli
In an extremely annoying way.
their failings were maddeningly ignored
as submodifier the solution is maddeningly complex
Example sentencesExamples
- The characters are maddeningly underwritten.
- She tells us that she cannot read Spanish well, so she quotes maddeningly few lines from his letters.
- His grasp of cinematic language is not fluid enough to prevent the film from becoming, at times, maddeningly opaque.
- In the span of 28 minutes, the band races through 10 songs that are all maddeningly pleasant-sounding.
- The subtitles were maddeningly sparse, leaving you with little idea of what was truly taking place.
- The staging of the love duet is maddeningly persuasive.
- Whenever Johnson runs out of ideas, he throws in an invisible chihuahua that keeps maddeningly yapping.
- For many, there seemed to be, maddeningly, nothing there to see.
- Hanging flasks released drops of water, which fell, at a maddeningly slow rate, into huge concave discs on the floor.
- He is a maddeningly underappreciated American writer, perhaps the least known great writer alive in America.
Definition of maddeningly in US English:
maddeningly
adverbˈmad(ə)niNGlēˈmæd(ə)nɪŋli
In an extremely annoying way.
their failings were maddeningly ignored
as submodifier the solution is maddeningly complex
Example sentencesExamples
- He is a maddeningly underappreciated American writer, perhaps the least known great writer alive in America.
- Whenever Johnson runs out of ideas, he throws in an invisible chihuahua that keeps maddeningly yapping.
- Hanging flasks released drops of water, which fell, at a maddeningly slow rate, into huge concave discs on the floor.
- In the span of 28 minutes, the band races through 10 songs that are all maddeningly pleasant-sounding.
- The staging of the love duet is maddeningly persuasive.
- The characters are maddeningly underwritten.
- The subtitles were maddeningly sparse, leaving you with little idea of what was truly taking place.
- She tells us that she cannot read Spanish well, so she quotes maddeningly few lines from his letters.
- His grasp of cinematic language is not fluid enough to prevent the film from becoming, at times, maddeningly opaque.
- For many, there seemed to be, maddeningly, nothing there to see.