Galling is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for GALLING in dictionary:

VERB:
• GALL, to make sore by rubbing
• make (someone) feel annoyed or resentful
• make sore by rubbing
NOUN:
• bold and impudent behaviour
• the contents of the gall bladder; bile (proverbial for its bitterness).
• used to refer to something bitter or cruel
• annoyance or resentment
• a sore on the skin made by chafing
• an abnormal growth formed in response to the presence of insect larvae, mites, or fungi on plants and trees, especially oaks
• denoting insects or mites that produce galls
• an animal's gall bladder
ADJECTIVE:
• annoying or bitterly humiliating
• Fitted to gall or chafe; vexing; harassing; irritating.
• causing irritation or annoyance
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to vex or irritate

Words related to GALLING

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How to use GALLING in a sentence

• As we advanced, the enemy poured a galling fire upon us.
• From all divisions of our lines they were closely pursued, a galling fire being kept up on their rear, which they returned at intervals with little or no effect.
• It is a little galling to the people of Illinois, Michigan, and Ohio to find the humble Hoosier is far ahead in the matter of road building.
• He said he was no longer a boy, and every day made his yoke more galling.
• To the middle of this chain he had fastened a string, so as in a manner to suspend them and keep them from galling his ankles.
• The battery in the upper angle of the town, which, was too high to fire upon, kept up a galling fire, and another further to the eastward was still at work.
• Such contact as there was must no doubt have been galling and oppressive.
• Then once again he abruptly thought of a chance whereby to redeem his galling failures.
• Meanwhile the archers on the flanks poured a galling shower on the collateral Scottish columns.
• It was all very galling for one who has fought and, I may say, bled for his country.
• The delay was galling but had to be endured until the infinite maze of red tape was at an end.
• The spray of lead from the machine gun had become so galling that Captain Boyd decided to charge the position.
• Feuds were for the time being forgotten, and with a gallant effort the galling yoke of the Archbishop-prince was thrown off, and the people of Cologne were once more free.
• That the saloon element should be in harmony with them was galling to the college crowd, though the fact that their motives for agreement were utterly different was some solace.
• The manifestation of such a spirit of independence was, however, exceedingly galling to their imperious prelate.
• The regimental reserve was called upon to try its nerve, by lying quiet under a galling fire, without the privilege of returning it, where men were killed and wounded.
• Presently, after advancing a few yards, we were subjected to a galling fire from the stone fort, the trenches in its front and from a blockhouse on its right.
• In marriage, the intimacy is so great and constant that the slightest friction easily becomes galling.
• My whole spiritual being seemed exalted to the clouds, yet restrained by some galling chain from the heaven it sought to enter.
• The Confederate Commander, divining his intention, poured a galling fire into his ranks and began a race with him for the heights.
• His editorial chair had been specially galling that day, perhaps, or the impulse to paint stronger than usual.
• The firing then became general, being most galling on the right and centre of the Canadian line.
• It must have been the more galling in that a few years earlier Scott had been lifted by the ballad from obscurity to fame.
• These letters are distinguished for their polished style, their power of invective, their galling sarcasm, their knowledge of state secrets, and their unparalleled boldness.
• Altogether, the spring of 1781 was very trying, for there was nothing so galling to Washington as to be unable to fight.
• The Duchess of Kent, still surrounded by all the galling appearances of filial consideration, remained in Buckingham Palace a discarded figure, powerless and inconsolable.
• These Hebrews to whom Jesus is speaking are writhing with sore shoulders under the galling yoke of the Romans.
• It was too galling to lie under the public challenge hurled at them by Mr.
• They behaved splendidly under the warm and galling fire we were exposed to in the two skirmishes with the enemy.
• Something in her eyes made it very galling to be overhauled and have my blemishes enumerated before her and Croghan.
• They bore with complacency a piece of petty tyranny on the part of Pothinus, which at another time they would have found galling indeed.
• If the yoke and bows are properly made and fit the cattle, there is no fear of galling the beast.
• Such remarks were very galling to the high-spirited boy, and he was constantly revolving all manner of schemes by which he could earn money and cease to be dependent.

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