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This breathtaking fish zoo was also called the National Aquarium, which must have galled fans of the original.

From Washington Post • Nov. 25, 2017

I hope he wasn’t a perfectionist, because it would have galled him.

From Forbes • Oct. 14, 2014

That must have galled Koernke; so must the unglamorous civilian job he took in 1982, and still holds, as a maintenance worker at the University of Michigan, where he had once expected to study.

From Time Magazine Archive

It hailed the "great international significance" of West Germany's treaties with Moscow and Warsaw, which could only have galled the East German leader.

From Time Magazine Archive

It is, indeed, impossible to give any idea of the vindictive spirit with which poor Courbet was treated by his native village, and, seeing how much he loved it, it must have galled him deeply.

From Holidays in Eastern France by Betham-Edwards, Matilda