galling

Adjective complement with noun phrase

• find: I always find this question galling, for some reason.

Infinitive complement

• see: It was galling to see the sun shining on the valleys to either side.
• hear: It's a bit galling to hear of instances where half the money donated immediately disappears into the hands of ' officials ' .
• have: It was most galling to have my circumstances dragged into an argument over political ideology.
• think: It is galling to think that everything you have been telling me could have been a lie.

Modifies a noun

• thing: The galling thing was I didn't make any mistakes myself.
• aspect: The galling aspect is that the population lets them all get away with it.
• defeat: These were then followed by a galling defeat at the hands of a very strong and competetive Bristol team 4-2.
• part: Because it was a 2-lap circuit the galling part was knowing that you had to go through it all again.

Modifying Another Word

• particularly: One particularly galling feature of the SA has been the silent boycott of agreed actions which do not meet with SWP approval.
• especially: Many found it especially galling that Washington was " jeopardizing " its coalition-building efforts by reverting to " self-willed unilateralism " .
• pretty: If your work means a lot to you it is pretty galling and takes time to get over.
• so: But it was Henry's lack of esteem for me which I really found so galling.
• very: To go to the trouble to go there and then only be shown a small section of the cave I find very galling.
• rather: Nina Jacobs, the theater's publicist, admits to finding the copious media coverage of the cats " rather galling " .

Used with adjective complement

• find: To go to the trouble to go there and then only be shown a small section of the cave I find very galling.
• reduce: KERONITE improves the wear-resistance of bare Magnesium by 20 times and also reduces galling.