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gallingadjective causing annoyanceher holier-than-thou attitude is galling abrasive, aggravating, annoying, bothersome, carking, chafing, disturbing, exasperating, frustrating, irksome, irritating, maddening, nettlesome, nettling, peeving, pesky, pestiferous, pestilent, pestilential, pesty, plaguey(also plaguy), rankling, rebarbative, riling, vexatious, vexing burdensome, discomforting, displeasing, disquieting, distressing, importunate, importune, inconveniencingangering, enraging, infuriatingbrattish, bratty, mischievous, offensive, troublesome, upsettingdistractive, painful, stressful, tiresome, troubling, trying, worrisomebiting, grating, jangling, jarring, spiny, thorny delightful, pleasing hard to accept or bear especially emotionallylosing in the last round of play-offs was galling to our home team afflicting, agonizing, bitter, cruel, excruciating, grievous, harrowing, harsh, heartrending, hurtful, painful, tormenting, torturous insufferable, insupportable, intolerable, unacceptable, unbearable, unendurable, unsupportableappalling, awful, bad, dire, dreadful, ghastly, horrible, miserable, nasty, rotten, severe, terrible, vile, wretchedacute, extreme, intense, piercing gratifying, pleasing, sweet bearable, endurable, supportable, sustainable, tolerablelivable(also liveable), sufferable, survivableacceptable, allowable, reasonable gallingverbpresent participle of gallto damage or diminish by continued frictionmove that rope so the sharp edge of the hull doesn't gall it abrading, chafing, corrading, eroding, fraying, frazzling, fretting, rasping, rubbing, wearing filing, gnawing, grating, grazing, grinding, nibbling, sandblasting, sandpapering, scouring, scraping, scuffing, shavingerasing, reducing, rubbing out, wearing out, wiping (away)biting, breaking down, breaking up, chewing, corroding, decomposing, disintegrating, dissolving, eatinghoning, sharpening, whetting to disturb the peace of mind of (someone) especially by repeated disagreeable actshumming through your nose like that absolutely galls me aggravating, annoying, bothering, bugging, burning (up), chafing, eating, exasperating, frosting, getting, grating, griping, hacking (off), irking, irritating, itching, narking(British), nettling, peeving, persecuting, piquing, putting out, rasping, riling, ruffling, spiting, vexing hassling, hecklingnagginginflaming(also enflaming), provoking, rousingbadgering, baiting, bullyragging(also ballyragging), deviling(or devilling), hagriding, harassing, harrying, pestering, plaguing, teasingangering, antagonizing, enraging, incensing, infuriating, maddening, rankling, roilingagitating, discomforting, discomposing, disquieting, distressing, exercising, freaking (out), fretting, perturbing, undoing, unhinging, unsettling, upsetting, worryingaffronting, insulting, miffing, offending, outraging getting one's goat, getting on one's nerves, getting to, rubbing the wrong way, setting one's teeth on edge, sticking in one's craw, wearing on appeasing, conciliating, mollifying, obliging, pacifying, placating, propitiatingdelighting, gladdening, gratifying, pleasing, satisfyingassuring, cheering, comforting, consoling, contenting, quieting, reassuring, solacing, soothing to make sore by continued rubbingtie your shoes so they don't gall your heels sliding on and off like that abrading, chafing, excoriating, fretting, irritating grazing, scraping, scratchingburning, inflaming(also enflaming)flaying, peeling, skinning in 1583 |