Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Causing extreme irritation or chagrin; vexing.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Such as to gall, irritate, or distress; extremely annoying; harrowing; provoking.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Fitted to gall or chafe; vexing; harassing; irritating.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
vexing ,humiliating - verb Present participle of
gall .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective causing irritation or annoyance
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word galling.
Examples
-
What she finds particularly galling is the tea partiers 'oft-repeated revolutionary cry of taxation without representation, despite the election of a president on the highest voter turnout since 1968.
Three books on the Tea Party, reviewed by Steven Levingston Post 2010
-
What makes this even more galling is that there are probably more people working in our “corporate communications” dept than I have alongside me when I parade on for my shift.
Policing Pledge Is A Lie SHOCK « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2010
-
What make this automatic 50% of surnames excision particularly galling is that for almost all of us, the only parentage we can claim with certainty is maternal.
Great Scots 2009
-
What she finds particularly galling is the tea partiers 'oft-repeated revolutionary cry of taxation without representation, despite the election of a president on the highest voter turnout since 1968.
Three books on the Tea Party, reviewed by Steven Levingston Post 2010
-
What make this automatic 50% of surnames excision particularly galling is that for almost all of us, the only parentage we can claim with certainty is maternal.
Archive 2009-08-01 2009
-
I don't have a prblm with cheating, per se, we are not gods, we are humans, despite what the Christian right preaches, what I find galling is the people who pretend to be what they are not.
-
And most galling is that this entire legislative exercise was unnecessary.
Josh Silver: Why it's "Radical" to Fight Corporate Control of Government (And Why Net Neutrality Is a Remedy) Josh Silver 2010
-
What makes the situation so galling is that we, now playing second banana, are in no way a threat to them.
Matthew Yglesias » Staggeringly Off-the-Mark Forecasts of European Economic Preeminence 2010
-
I take that back, the thing that's MOST galling is that he's going to continue to allow American troops to DIE NEEDLESSLY while he dithers about looking smart and thoughtful.
-
What she finds particularly galling is the tea partiers 'oft-repeated revolutionary cry of taxation without representation, despite the election of a president on the highest voter turnout since 1968.
Three books on the Tea Party, reviewed by Steven Levingston Post 2010
GHibbs commented on the word galling
My adjectival use: 'He said that it was a galling experience, because all his friends were there.'
August 22, 2011