gall

Then it has the gall to call it a win for us.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026

They can range from nausea through to hair loss to more serious and rare complications like kidney issues and gall stones.

From BBC ● May 16, 2026

And then he has the gall to justify his expenses by saying that we do need two cars.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2025

Tucked into the speeches lauding Lee’s accomplishments, more than one supporter called out Taylor for having the gall to go after her.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 25, 2025

If anyone had the gall to ask why the door had been locked, Jackson would respond that it hadn't been locked; the students had simply been unable to open it.

From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart

What galls me is the failure to identify one of the — certainly not the only — bedrock reasons some people go through life with little or no money: mismanagement.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 26, 2026

What galls her is that “it’s so often the case that a person with a disability has to make themselves indigent in order to qualify for what they need,” Smith said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2024

But as much as it galls me to admit it, these gems don't always hold up to adult scrutiny.

From Salon ● Nov. 29, 2022

Gall insects are everywhere: It is estimated that 1,000 species of gall wasps in North America are responsible for the galls on oaks alone.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 2, 2022

To wear a false name galls me, but nothing else would save me, or get me dear across the width of Orgoreyn to the coast of the Western Sea.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin

Many were particularly galled about a provision in the U.S. plan that extended amnesty for actions taken by all parties during the war.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 22, 2025

Still, the 32-hour workweek has galled some taxpayers, said Royce Meyerott, a resident active in local debates.

From Seattle Times ● May 26, 2024

The Miss America tragic brag that it was the single biggest source of scholarship money for women in the United States always galled me to the gills.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 25, 2023

The block on calls using the popular WhatsApp, FaceTime and Skype applications has particularly galled UAE residents who were separated from families and friends by restrictions during the pandemic.

From Reuters ● Sep. 29, 2021

Truth be told, I wasn’t really hungry anymore, but it galled me to be pulled away from a meal after all the times I’d been hungry in Tarbean.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss

What was most galling, though, was the visitors' failure to match Leeds' bite at a raucous Elland Road.

From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026

IBM’s current predicament is especially galling given it was once at the forefront of AI with Watson, a natural-language computer processing system that won “Jeopardy!”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026

And that’s not even the most galling part.

From Slate ● May 19, 2026

To the U.A.E., this was especially galling because several OPEC+ states were routinely falling short of their production targets.

From Barron's ● May 4, 2026

Most galling to me was when she turned down an opportunity to go to an Ivy League business school after college, deciding that it would be too much work and therefore no fun.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama