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Meanings of gall in English
Portuguese
atrevimento Catalan
barra The trait of being rude and impertinent; inclined to take liberties.
Synonyms
Examples for "bitterness"
Examples for "bitterness"
1
The court cases and scandals brought recreational drugs, depression and increasing bitterness.
2
Asperity and bitterness must be buried in the graves with the dead.
3
The project has caused much bitterness among well-to-do Jews in the area.
4
The coldness of the clergyman was forgotten in the bitterness of self-reproach.
5
Many said the government had compounded their bitterness by curtailing collective mourning.
1
However, the prospect of her release also stirred resentment among kidnapping victims.
2
However, the prospect of her release has stirred resentment among kidnapping victims.
3
Pay disparities exist between companies for workers of similar jobs, fueling resentment.
4
Others point to a resentment at China's growing role in the country.
5
It also creates resentment, and when economic conditions improve people will leave.
1
The blood mounted to his thick neck; his eyes flashed with rancor.
2
The Bureau similarly noted Curly Humphreys' rancor over the Bobby Kennedy development.
3
Ann's eventual separation from Lolo was undramatic and relatively free of rancor.
4
Then the old doubting rancor and rebelliousness took possession of the multitude.
5
The whole affair sank to the deeper deeps of rancor and savageness.
1
Our first task will be a transition without rancour, and without resentment.
2
But now she had all the zeal-nay ,eventhe rancour-ofthe convert.
3
But the rancour was not vehement, and the evening was passed pleasantly.
4
His resentment was never on private grounds, and it was without rancour.
5
To this, and to the letter, her rancour may principally be ascribed.
Usage of gall in English
1
It was the last drop in the cup of gall, she thought.
2
The cares of the world did not gall the shoulders of Mme.
3
She often ate the bread of sorrow steeped in wormwood and gall.
4
The gall of the bear is used as medicine internally and externally.
5
Snake gall bladder proves especially effective in dissolving phlegm and improving vision.
6
And then to have the gall to threaten Lem with legal action?
7
Small wonder he smoked gall and wormwood in his cigarettes that night.
8
This contest rouses my gall; my heart is boiling over with wrath.
9
But there was not one little drop of gall in his blood.
10
Something else to gall Captain Poland, he thought with a grim chuckle.
11
A stone, as large as a common gooseberry, was in the gall-bladder.
12
And yet every word of it was gall and wormwood to him.
13
Physicians were accustomed to order doses of the gall of wild swine.
14
I warm to a man who hath some gall in his liver.
15
He wrote well, but was disposed to dip his pen in gall.
16
The attention she attracted was to Maurice like gall to a wound.
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Translations for gall
Portuguese
Catalan
Gall through the time
Gall across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common