maddeninglyadv.
/ˈmadn̩ɪŋli/, U.S. /ˈmædn̩ɪŋli/ In a maddening manner.
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1841 E. S. Wortley Maiden of Moscow vi. xix. 226 With shuddering agonies of dread—Perchance even maddeningly misled.
a1861 E. B. Browning Paraphr. Nonnus in Last Poems (1862) 122 She named her hero, and raged maddeningly Against the brine of waters.
1925 W. J. Locke Great Pandolfo ii. 23 The beautiful lady whose name he had not caught, because, in abstraction, she had turned her name card maddeningly upside down, took little or no interest in him.
1994 N.Y. Times Bk. Rev. 2 Jan. 6/1 A ragtag assortment of impassioned, but maddeningly digressive, passages.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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