are galling
- present progressive of gall.
Example Sentences
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Nonetheless, a number of the newly detailed practices are galling.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 12, 2022
Such statements are galling to Ms. Walton, 39, who says the mayor’s intransigence is doing a disservice to the residents of the very city he says he loves.
From New York Times ● Sep. 27, 2021
Just because these new test and guidelines are galling, however, doesn’t mean they’re all bad.
From Slate ● Oct. 24, 2017
With adventurers, people who are treading upon his kibes, equivocal pretenders who are galling his heel, he is hopelessly exclusive, preserving towards them an armed neutrality.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 1843 by Various
Having a mind as other men, such arbitrary restrictions are galling.
From Unfettered A Novel by Griggs, Sutton E. (Sutton Elbert)
