Examples of galling in a Sentence
This is a galling defeat.
her holier-than-thou attitude is galling
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Perhaps most galling, the removal hearing — the only part of the process with an independent neutral overseer — might not be open to the public.
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Mercury News Editorial, Mercury News, 27 June 2025
This is a particularly galling development in fields like tax, where reference to technical standards can be a prerequisite for understanding the law—and integration into third party tools all but demanded by the realities of practice.
—Andrew Leahey, Forbes.com, 26 June 2025
Initially, something about Too Much’s insistence on citing rom-coms in its episode titles while so stubbornly resisting romance felt galling to me.
—Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 17 July 2025
At first idly, then with what appears to be solicitude, and finally with the glee of a cat cornering a mouse before killing it, Gustav pokes into Adi’s professional failures, connecting them to Tekla’s galling success.
—Jesse Green, New York Times, 19 May 2025
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Mercury News Editorial, Mercury News, 27 June 2025
This is a particularly galling development in fields like tax, where reference to technical standards can be a prerequisite for understanding the law—and integration into third party tools all but demanded by the realities of practice.
—Andrew Leahey, Forbes.com, 26 June 2025
Initially, something about Too Much’s insistence on citing rom-coms in its episode titles while so stubbornly resisting romance felt galling to me.
—Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 17 July 2025
At first idly, then with what appears to be solicitude, and finally with the glee of a cat cornering a mouse before killing it, Gustav pokes into Adi’s professional failures, connecting them to Tekla’s galling success.
—Jesse Green, New York Times, 19 May 2025
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“Galling.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/galling. Accessed 4 Aug. 2025.
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