Meanings of so galling in English

What yoke is so galling as the necessity of being like him?

Never before had the realization been so galling, so bitter.

Never was anything so galling as the air he had of contemptuous and amused comprehension.

His poverty had never seemed so galling, so humiliating.

If it could have been carried on in private, it would not have seemed so galling.

This truth, so galling to a lady, silenced Jane, made her bite her lips with rage.

It was just so galling.

He gained a more secure position, and returned upon the enemy so galling a discharge, as caused them to retire.

He knew that Ingeborg had a fancy for him; it was therefore so galling to him that Olaf should have her.

What I find so galling is that women who want caesareans are being denied them on the NHS for essentially political reasons.

Altogether, the spring of 1781 was very trying, for there was nothing so galling to Washington as to be unable to fight.

History scarcely records another instance of tyranny so galling and humiliating to the oppressed, and so insolent on the part of its author.

What I've always found so galling about this sort of behaviour is that it's so often attributed to the supposedly uncontrollable male sex drive.

This name reminded Philip of the sacred bond of which Dolores was ignorant, and which had never seemed to him so galling as now.

That's what's so galling about this, to have the harder part of this done and have all these small specifics giving me such trouble.

Leaving them, though in somewhat dangerous company, we just glance at the lover, whose epistle to the proud maiden proved so galling to her humours.