Galling [adjective]

Prejudices always seem to ebb with a galling sluggishness, but an old one about Polynesian-American football players just keeps on rushing from dead to deader.

The galling part of it was that Aunt Linda knew, and was chuckling, so to speak, over my discomfiture.

As the British line advanced slowly and in exact order, the guides opened a galling fire.

Galling though the Irish laws were, they never went so far as to make the mere holding of heretical opinions criminal.

Yet it was infinitely galling to be hidden away in this manner.

Sometimes the thought seemed pleasant, then again it would be galling in the extreme.

They take a fiendish delight in torturing us with tantrums, galling us with gammon, and pelting us with platitudes.

She felt as though the sad truth were written upon her brow; and this pure white dress was a bitter irony, a galling humiliation.

But it is one Spirit in him and in us, and that is why we do not find the exercise of his authority alien or galling.

The Anglican Church had received privileges galling to other denominations which surpassed it in numbers.