galling

But that does not make the situation any less galling.

They needed the money, but it must have been galling for the couple.

It is galling to be held in place against your will.

But even all that, galling as it was, would not have been so bad.

He will find his visit galling, an old man with a young wife.

He had to keep that knowledge, galling as it was, at the center of his attention.

I can, it seems, have both but not without a galling sense of conflict.

Indeed, I state in the piece that it is galling.

It's hard to be sure which of the two actions seemed more galling.

It does seem especially galling, though, considering what happened last year.

For some reason this was her most galling silence of all.

It was galling, but he would have to pass up this opportunity.

That she had hated him always was even more galling.

That seemed to be the galling aspect of the matter.

It was galling to live so long, only to face such bitterness.

While I understand the economics of the situation, it is still galling, even wrong.

It must be particularly galling, having been born into such a perfect family.

It's almost always made by politicians, and that's the really galling part.

It was particularly galling, however, to be dependent on a woman.

So it is galling, he said, to be told by the legislature how to do his job.

The sight of little kids eating would be galling to them.

How galling that they have dared to last this long.

It was just too galling, seeing him all dressed up for someone else.

I find it galling that they seem to keep looking for jam today.

At the same time, I knew how galling he found it to stand by, feeling useless.