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by dotsamuelswan 4254 days ago
Addicting can be used as a participle adjective. You'd be hard-pressed to find a style guide that says otherwise.
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Descriptivist pig!
I couldn't possibly argue with that.
In seriousness, though, "addicting" sounds worse to me. "Addictive" is more standard, wider-spread and more sonorous.
As a non-expert English speaker with 41 years or so of experience, I feel that "addicting" is just fine in this context.

But that's just my opinion.