galling
adjective
gallingly
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a word derived from
galling.
Example Sentences
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Most gallingly for their menfolk, these previously disenchanted wives had also found self-confidence and a notable degree of emotional independence.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 27, 2026
Yet, gallingly, they also hailed from the most privileged precincts of American society, places like the elite prep school Groton, Harvard, and Wall Street.
From Salon ● Feb. 17, 2023
We don’t need to be personally acquainted with anyone in Ukraine, of course, to find the war abhorrent and its casualties gallingly tragic.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 5, 2022
I’ve often said that rooting for the Patriots feels like rooting for the Joker in a Christopher Nolan Batman film—they’re psychotically single-minded, amoral, gallingly narcissistic, purveyors of opportunistic, meticulous chaos.
From Slate ● Feb. 3, 2017
But his was a captive race; and just at present his position was gallingly unimportant.
From Istar of Babylon A Phantasy by Margaret Horton Potter
