galling

• That was the part Kitty found galling--not the cabbage at her head, but someone daring to talk to her about school while she was at the grocery store, a place she found quite trying under the best of circumstances. —  Lippman, Laura - [Tess Monaghan 01] - Baltimore Blues
• Far more galling was his suspicion that Mrs. Post was courting these communications, then being secretive about them. —  Murder Without Icing-Emma Lathen-Thatcher 14
• His mother's interference in his life was galling, and what in the name of God was he going to do about the mess she had created? —  Garwood, Julie - Rose 4 - One Red Rose
• To make the loss the more galling, they took what we could least spare—the medicine-box, which they would only throw away as soon as they came to examine their booty. —  The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume I
• Particularly galling was the finding of high rates of new HIV infections in older gay / bisexual men. —  Top Stories - Google News

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