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Meanings of galling in English

Causing irritation or annoyance.

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Usage of galling in English
1
Donaldson's betrayal was seen as particularly galling, given his impeccable republican credentials.
The Guardian
2
The answer is galling to EU diplomats and foreign ministers, but telling.
The Irish Times
3
But the blow at the moment of the stroke is very galling.
North America — Volume 1
4
The last words were galling, in the extreme, to Raoul de Fontaine.
Saint Bartholomew's Eve: A Tale of the Huguenot Wars
5
The knowledge was more galling than the bare fact of his abduction.
A Game of Thrones
6
Their hope was to push the galling foes away from the fence.
The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War
7
The truth of it bit into him, galling him-hewas no warrior.
The coming of the dragon
8
Though the idea was galling, she had to consult with Sean Maguire.
Table for five
9
We'll learn from them. Horst was full of galling truisms, thought Cabal.
Johannes cabal the necromancer
10
He merely sat in the corner and chuckled in a galling manner.
A nameless witch
11
But it was galling to discover that he could not do otherwise.
Where Angels Fear to Tread
12
One is not bound down by a galling yoke of ecclesiastical tyranny.
Mr. World and Miss Church-Member: A Twentieth Century Allegory
13
One particularly galling circumstance at last caused their discontent to break out.
History of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume...
14
This criticism has always been a galling one, and not without reason.
Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic
15
An industrious young man can always free himself from a galling yoke.
Mark Hurdlestone; Or, The Two Brothers
16
And to me it's particularly galling, because I never exploded at all.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, October 10, 1917
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