galling

How To Use galling In A Sentence

• What is particularly galling is that the authors never bothered to contact me or my department head or dean to inquire about this matter.
• What she finds particularly galling is the tea partiers 'oft-repeated revolutionary cry of taxation without representation, despite the election of a president on the highest voter turnout since 1968. Three books on the Tea Party, reviewed by Steven Levingston
• It was especially galling to be criticised by this scoundrel.
• And, what's even more galling, we've been told that the sum involved is comparatively trifling, a drop in the ocean of the department's annual budget of €41 billion.
• It was galling to have to apologize to a man she hated.
• Yes indeed, and clearly that's galling the people who are holding those three Italian hostages, originally four.
• It's particularly galling that German-speakers, not noted for syllabic parsimony, have no problem with it.
• By now your paddling mates are a speck in the distance, the rhythmic flash of the sun on their paddle blades a galling reminder of the way this sport should be played.
• The only men who behaved unhandsomely on the occasion were some of the Irish members, advocates of Repeal, who, with more than national brass, grounded their declinature on the galling yoke of the Saxon, and retreated to Connemara, doubtless exulting that in this instance at least they had freed themselves from "hereditary bonds. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845.
• What make this automatic 50% of surnames excision particularly galling is that for almost all of us, the only parentage we can claim with certainty is maternal. Great Scots