gall

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026

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

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2025

When Johnson underwent anesthesia for a gall bladder operation, Moyers was given responsibility to decide whether then-Vice President Hubert Humphrey should take over the president’s powers in the event of a crisis.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2025

Remarkably however, two police officers assessed his death as non-suspicious, owing to his wound from gall bladder surgery which took place a week earlier.

From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2025

And I began to realize why so few sensitive Negroes had had the gall to come as close to them as I had.

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright

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

“It galls me that that gets forgotten, because he’s rewriting the history of what happened on those tapes.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2023

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

Eiseman was familiar with galls long before writing his first book, particularly the common ones referred to as “oak apples,” for their large size and roughly spherical shape.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 2, 2022

My own voice galls even me; it oppresses me like a silver fork scraped across porcelain.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

What galled her most: the bruin stole her favorite biscotti.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026

All these decades later, a wide swath of the public today continues to be baffled and occasionally galled by Pollock, just as it didn’t get Serra for years.

From New York Times ● Mar. 27, 2024

But Stone, like others, has been galled by the way the recall has played out.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2022

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

She was right, he knew, though it galled him that she would make that decision 1 should never have come to the ball, he realized belatedly.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

The first six games have been galling for under-pressure Arsenal boss Renee Slegers, particularly given pre-season talk of a serious title push.

From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026

But among all these responses, Katie Miller’s was particularly galling and tone-deaf.

From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2026

The loss of Shazeer is particularly galling as it is the second time he has left Google.

From Barron's ● Jun. 26, 2026

What’s really galling to Scots is the culprit’s lack of ambition.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026

Tyrion had made a practice of ignoring the sellsword's frequent insolences, but tonight he found it galling.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin