galling
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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
What is especially galling, some victims said, is that their compensation for years of fighting for justice will boil down to a day’s pay for a Purdue attorney like Huebner, who charges $2,935 an hour.
From Salon • Apr. 24, 2026
Perhaps the most galling part of Cannon’s order, though, was that she issued it at all.
From Slate • Feb. 26, 2026
As galling as it is to lose three games on home soil, this was an experience England needed before the World Cup.
From BBC • Nov. 8, 2025
The other men desired me, therefore, to write to Major Byrd as an intermediary and ask that he rectify this galling practice.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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