Galling in a sentence as an adjective

I am always in constant bewilderment at how galling some of these corporate crimes are. How does one even go about planning these?

Deleting your account was less galling than using your phone number to confirm your identity? Hm.

In the end the whole process with YouTube was so galling that I just deleted my whole account. As OP notes, it's not like Google+ was the first place people would look for me, and it's not a useful resource for me, so why have it at all?

The galling potential of this story is that even though you're paying for your cell phone and service, you are potentially still the product being sold.

Most galling to me is that one of these executive used some of his "hard owned bonus" to have a faculty/ building at my alma mater named after him. I believe this was probably more driven by ego than guilt!

I find your sentiment about GnuPG a little galling. GnuPG is widely trusted and one of the most reviewed cryptosystems in the world; you advocate that it should be replaced --- by Cryptocat, no less --- because you find it "clunky".

I guess what was most galling was seeing certain retail sites getting away with blatant spam while your own sites got mysteriously slammed. I don't blame Google though - it's a direct result of having a single player market.

The galling thing about Rand's writings is the complete lack of understanding or compassion wrt the structural causes of inequity in society. It's a heavy handed, hateful, and facile way to view the world once put under a lens.

I just personally find it galling that this kind of post is tolerated here. It has nothing to do with hacking or entrepreneurship and it only really serves to broaden the exposure of Hacker News to people who really have no business here in the first place.

It's a sort of anti-intellectualism I find particularly galling, but it seems lamentably common in some nooks of the programming world.

The entire stance - or at least, the stance in the way it seems to be most commonly expressed - is fundamentally mean-spirited, made all the more galling by the disingenuous reframing.

I find it particularly galling that "Death with dignity" is "a silly loaded catchphrase designed to put opponents off balance" and yet "Death with courage" is something you throw in to support that belief. You need to take a moment to listen to your own rhetoric and think about the people your opinions effect.

I'm not against aggregation or curation, but there is something especially galling about a science blog that omits what should be a common characteristic in scientific literature: the linking back to original data and sources. The lack of this information makes this article pretty much useless.

The framing of this article is particularly galling because there are so many non-chomskian linguists out in the world who operate fruitfully in the statistical domain. Propping Chomsky up as somehow representative of all linguists is pretty specious and a bit irritating.

So there's something a little galling about how scrollkit, which was given 6 figures to aid journalism, is instead raising publicity for itself by dumbing down the already muddled discussion on content management. And also, its exploitation of the emotions and confusion in the continuing debate over intellectual copyright is also a little annoying.

What's particularly galling is that the entities they have stolen this money from are schools, hospitals, ports etc. Basically, another example of the already rich brazenly lining their pockets yet further with misappropriated public money.

Particularly galling pull-out para: "Together the permission to search and to keep data longer expanded the NSAs authority in significant ways without public debate or any specific authority from Congress. The administrations assurances rely on legalistic definitions of the term target that can be at odds with ordinary English usage.

Which got galling after a while; I don't mind mowing, weeding, edging, and sweeping, or spending six hours getting filthy with my arm jammed to the elbow up the *** end of a car engine, but when I've been doing that all day, and have finally finished up and got a shower, a beer, and a piece of the couch, I don't give a damn if it's my turn to cook -- and nor should I, because I've done my fair share. > We have at least two viable role models for women: girly woman and equal breadwinner woman.

Galling definitions

adjective

causing irritation or annoyance; "tapping an annoying rhythm on his glass with his fork"; "aircraft noise is particularly bothersome near the airport"; "found it galling to have to ask permission"; "an irritating delay"; "nettlesome paperwork"; "a pesky mosquito"; "swarms of pestering gnats"; "a plaguey newfangled safety catch"; "a teasing and persistent thought annoyed him"; "a vexatious child"; "it is vexing to have to admit you are wrong"