(n.) Trouble; vexation; also, physical pain or smart of a sore, etc.
(n.) A strong passion or emotion of displeasure or antagonism, excited by a real or supposed injury or insult to one's self or others, or by the intent to do such injury.
(v. t.) To make painful; to cause to smart; to inflame.
(v. t.) To excite to anger; to enrage; to provoke.
Example Sentences:
(1) To become president of Afghanistan , Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai changed his wardrobe and modified his name, gave up coffee, embraced a man he once denounced as a “known killer” and even toyed with anger management classes to tame a notorious temper.
(2) Polls indicated that anger over the government shutdown, which was sharply felt in parts of northern Virginia, as well as discomfort with Cuccinelli's deeply conservative views, handed the race to McAuliffe, a controversial Democratic fundraiser and close ally of Bill and Hillary Clinton.
(3) The figures, published in the company’s annual report , triggered immediate anger from fuel poverty campaigners who noted that energy suppliers had just been rapped over the knuckles by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) for overcharging .
(4) Black males with low intentions to use condoms reported significantly more negative attitudes about the use of condoms (eg, using condoms is disgusting) and reacted with more intense anger when their partners asked about previous sexual contacts, when a partner refused sex without a condom, or when they perceived condoms as interfering with foreplay and sexual pleasure.
(5) Make Quinn stay with B613 I think it would be difficult to bring her back to the fold at Pope and Associates (unless they’re playing the long con and her infiltration of B613 is part of the plan), but her anger would be well utilized against her former coworkers.
(6) Republicans remain wary of a contentious debate on the divisive issue, which could anger their core voters and undercut potential electoral gains in the November elections when control of Congress will be at stake.
(7) Although it never really has a sense of fun and burns with ill-focused anger, The Paperboy represents a kind of triumph, surely, even if it's just in getting such high-profile actors to do such low-down deeds.
(8) The territory’s chief executive Leung Chun-ying, has become a lightning rod for the protesters’ anger .
(9) But instead, he is going to crack under public anger over the huge amounts senior bankers have been paying themselves.
(10) Was that misreading the mood music of the referendum?” He claimed that many Tories had expressed their anger directly to Rudd about the controversial policy, which has since been watered down.
(11) Even in the best case this would cause a serious shock to the UK economy.” The CBI report angered Brexit campaigners, who believe the government is trying to scare voters into supporting Britain remaining in the EU.
(12) The walk-out is by far the most serious confrontation with the government since the elevation of the conservative-led, three-party coalition to power in June – and, says unionists, underlines the scale of public anger over cuts that are widely seen to be unfair.
(13) There was already simmering anger over the deaths of civilians in US drone attacks aimed at alleged terrorists inside Pakistan and over an incident in February in which a CIA contractor, Raymond Davis, shot dead two men on the street in Lahore he said were trying to rob him.
(14) Photograph: Rex Features If Brookstein had confined his anger to legitimate provocations, it would be easier to sympathise, for he seems to have suffered more than enough of them on The X Factor.
(15) I have in the past predicted anger, as the consequences of the recession for public spending become clear; I think the process of expressing that anger has barely begun.
(16) Photograph: Guardian Environmental activists now argue that if Obama fails to recognise that anger and block the pipeline, he could hurt his chances in the 2012 elections.
(17) Five needs were reported by more than 30% of the sample as not being met: 1) being able to talk about fears of the future, illness, or death; 2) being occupied and having things to do; 3) having up-to-date information about HIV; 4) having someone to help them with their feelings of depression, helplessness, anxiety, or anger; and 5) help for the patient's family.
(18) But I have heard from other people who have lost spouses in this way, and fathers and mothers, and anger is perfectly appropriate.
(19) The Kremlin has so far refrained from dealing with mounting anger against people from Russia's turbulent North Caucasus region, as well as migrant workers from central Asia, which has grown as the country's oil-fuelled economic boom has given way to the hardship of the global financial crisis.
(20) Denial, minimization, anger, withdrawal and noncompliance may occur.
Maddening
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Madden
Example Sentences:
(1) Both Keilloh and Madden face further hearings: the doctor will be examined by a General Medical Council disciplinary tribunal over his role in Iraq and the priest is to be interviewed by the archbishop of Birmingham, Bernard Longley.
(2) While focusing criticism on a few members of the regiment – particularly Corporal Donald Payne, Lieutenant Craig Rodgers and Lieutenant Colonel Jorge Mendonca – the report also passes scathing comment on the role of the unit's regimental medical officer, Dr Derek Keilloh, and its padre, Father Peter Madden.
(3) The Milan goalkeeper then forced away Xavi's shot after Iniesta had wriggled free with some maddeningly good footwork.
(4) Also, this would have probably required some sort of voodoo, as Smith and Jennings are the same type of maddening player that should never be on the court together.
(5) The first series of Heston's Great British Food was maddening.
(6) The study has the purpose of evaluating, by the analysis of ten years surviving curves, the effectiveness of different types of interventions: Halsted radical mastectomy (98 patients), Patey radical mastectomy (245 patients) and Madden radical mastectomy (151 patients), quadrantectomy (260 patients).
(7) There was also stinging criticism of Father Peter Madden, the unit's Catholic padre, who visited the temporary detention facility (TDF).
(8) And those in his shadow cabinet and beyond remained resolutely – and maddeningly – on-message.
(9) It’s maddening that the administration constantly talks about the ‘irreducible’ number of Guantánamo detainees when it takes such slow steps to reduce the numbers itself,” Kebriaei said.
(10) In this wildly unpredictable season, one of the few constants has been Everton’s maddening inconsistency.
(11) During the campaign she maddened them by refusing to firmly back the remain camp.
(12) The main features of the lymphatic down flow ways of this colon segment justify extended exeresis operations as described by Madden and Welti: they also mention colon resection, removal in one block of the spleen and the caudal corporal portion of the pancreas with the lymph node stations of the pancreatico-lienal group invaded by cancer.
(13) Sophie-Jane Madden said on Tuesday: “About 8,000 people crossed yesterday from Serbia to Croatia.
(14) The patient should be 'rescued' from these bonds linking the self with the maddening objects.
(15) Paddy Madden and Gary McSheffrey fired the goals to strengthen the Iron’s league position.
(16) Neither carried quite the emotional whack of Madden's departure.
(17) One hundred and eleven cases underwent Auchincloss and Madden modified radical mastectomy (MRM), and the remaining 126 cases received Halsted radical mastectomy (RM).
(18) This maddened one of his booking agents, who exclaimed: “I’d talk to him and all he’d say was ‘bells’ or ‘ding, ding’!” Young was the originator of the term “bread” as an expression for money, and habitually called both men and women “lady”.
(19) In an episode watched by half a million UK viewers on Sky Atlantic in June, Madden was killed off savagely and with so little warning that some (honestly, there's video proof ) leapt off their sofas.
(20) The General Medical Council declined to comment on the forthcoming hearing into Keilloh but Peter Jennings, press secretary for the archdiocese of Birmingham, said of the criticism of Madden: "The Catholic church takes this matter extremely seriously.