have been galling
- present perfect progressive of gall.
Example Sentences
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Whatever the reasons, the results have been galling.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 25, 2019
The campaign opened with vast promise, with the team coming off its first playoff appearance since 2007, but the results have been galling.
From New York Times ● Apr. 10, 2014
For a man confident enough to pen an autobiography in his twenties, such a public reversal of fortune must have been galling in the extreme.
From BBC ● Jun. 15, 2012
It would have been galling for Arsenal to find themselves part of the winger's rehab programme.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 14, 2011
Her conscience fighting with her love for Eddie Denton had kept her true to Mortimer, and Mortimer accepted the sacrifice with an absent-minded carelessness which would have been galling to any girl.
From The Clicking of Cuthbert by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)
