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GALLING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does galling mean?
• GALLING (adjective)
The adjective GALLING has 1 sense:
1. causing irritation or annoyance
Familiarity information: GALLING used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Causing irritation or annoyance
Synonyms:
annoying; bothersome; galling; irritating; nettlesome; pesky; pestering; pestiferous; plaguey; plaguy; teasing; vexatious; vexing
Context example:
it is vexing to have to admit you are wrong
Similar:
disagreeable (not to your liking)
Context examples
Can anything be more galling to the spirit of a man, continued John, than to see his younger brother in possession of an estate which might have been his own?
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
From that moment my state of mind changed; the fetters dissolved and dropped from every faculty, leaving nothing of bondage but its galling soreness—which time only can heal.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
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