gall

The son must endure the gall of being mocked and seeing his mother importuned by greedy suitors who feast nightly on the family’s stores.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026

She does, however, warn patients to watch out for signs of something more serious, like gall bladder problems or pancreatitis.

From BBC ● Mar. 8, 2026

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

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2025

Yet the group’s website has the gall to show both their photos, along with the phrase “Great minds think alike.”

From Slate ● Oct. 29, 2024

“You had the gall to steal from me—and by doing so, you saved us all.”

From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman

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

Another dogwood leaf may be in service to a different insect altogether: the gall midge, Parallelodiplosis subtruncata, a mosquito-like fly that makes blister galls.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 2, 2022

“And the mordants too. You must learn those. Sometimes sumac. Tree galls are good. Some lichens. “Best is — here, come; let me show you.

From "Gathering Blue" by Lois Lowry

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

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

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

From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026

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

From Salon ● Aug. 26, 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

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

From Barron's ● Jun. 26, 2026

What made it more galling was that Pete’s reputation was part myth.

From "Unbroken" by Laura Hillenbrand