Word Finder - galling

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To bother or trouble.

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To harass, to harry, often with the intent to cause injury.

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To chafe, to rub or subject to friction; to create a sore on the skin.

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To exasperate.

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To cause pitting on a surface being cut from the friction between the two surfaces exceeding the bond of the material at a point.

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Improper cooling and a dull milling blade on titanium can gall the surface.

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To scoff; to jeer.

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To impregnate with a decoction of gallnuts in dyeing.

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Wear caused by adhesion between sliding surfaces.

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Vexing, humiliating

Obedience he made one of his great instruments, yet he never intended it to be a galling yoke.

I always find this question galling, for some reason.

In young trees, galling caused by wooly aphids can cause serious disfigurement.

If your work means a lot to you it is pretty galling and takes time to get over.

By the princes the " yoke " was felt more keenly, and it was very galling.

Many found it especially galling that Washington was " jeopardizing " its coalition-building efforts by reverting to " self-willed unilateralism " .

But it was Henry's lack of esteem for me which I really found so galling.

To go to the trouble to go there and then only be shown a small section of the cave I find very galling.

Nina Jacobs, the theater's publicist, admits to finding the copious media coverage of the cats " rather galling " .

One particularly galling feature of the SA has been the silent boycott of agreed actions which do not meet with SWP approval.

At first a part of the population were content with Austrian rule, which provided an honest and efficient administration; but the rigid system of centralization which, while allowing the semblance of local autonomy, sent every minute question for settlement to Vienna; the severe police metho4ls; the bureaucracy, in which the best appointments were usually conferred on Germans or Slays wholly dependent on Vienna, proved galling to the people, and in view of the growing disnffection the country was turned into a vast armed camp. In Modena Duke Francis proved a cruel tyrant.

His death was an overwhelming grief to Chesterfield, and the discovery that he had long been married to a lady of humble origin must have been galling in the extreme to his father after his careful instruction in worldly wisdom.

The AustroGerman-Italian triple alliance was a dire blow to his expectations, and Crispi's policy with its irritating and galling pin-pricks caused the cup to overflow.

Boris began, wishing to sting her; but at that instant the galling thought occurred to him that he might have to leave Moscow without having accomplished his aim, and have vainly wasted his efforts--which was a thing he never allowed to happen.

He had little sympathy with Liberalism and abhorred revolution, but his hatred of Austria and his resentment at the galling tutelage to which she subjected him had gained strength year by year.

Even on the assumption that the Athenian dicasteries were scrupulously fair in their awards, it must have been peculiarly galling to the self-respect of the allies and inconvenient to individuals to be compelled to carry cases to Athens and Athenian juries.

The circumstances under which the battle of the Downs was won were galling to the pride of the English people, and intensified the growing unfriendliness between two nations, one of whom possessed and the other claimed supremacy upon the seas.

The terms of peace, though on the whole moderate, were of a galling and humiliating nature, being ingeniously contrived to make the Christians ever conscious of their own inferiority.

A sorrowful supplication, in which the speakers deplore, not the fall of Jerusalem, but their own state of galling dependence and hopeless poverty.

The chief and most galling of his critics at this time was the Abbe Desfontaines, and the chief of Desfontaines's attacks was entitled La Voltairomanie, in reply to a libel of Voltaire's called Le Preservatif.

A steep slope, vineyards, low stone walls and abatis had all to be surmounted, under a galling fire from the Bavarian musketeers, before the Army of France found itself, breathless and in disorder, in front of the actual entrenchments of the crest.

This subject had been handed over in 18 9 3 to a royal commission, and further discussed by a select committee in 1899 and a departmental committee in 1900, but both of these threw cold water on the schemes laid before them - a result which, galling enough to one who had made so much play with the question in the country, offered welcome material to his opponents for electioneering recrimination, as year by year went by between 1895 and 1900 and nothing resulted from all the confident talk on the subject in which Mr Chamberlain had indulged when out of office.

A Jesuit lives in obedience all his life, though the yoke is not galling nor always felt.

This was no less than the rising of the whole Celtic race, who had felt the galling yoke of Edward I.