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annoying
Causing irritation or annoyance; troublesome; vexatious.
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  1. Causing irritation or annoyance; troublesome; vexatious.
  2. Causing vexation or irritation; troublesome:
  3. Irritating; vexing; bothersome
bothersome
Causing bother; annoying; troublesome; irksome
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  1. Causing bother; annoying; troublesome; irksome
annoying
Causing irritation or annoyance; troublesome; vexatious.
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  1. Causing irritation or annoyance; troublesome; vexatious.
  2. Causing vexation or irritation; troublesome:
  3. Irritating; vexing; bothersome
bothersome
Causing bother; annoying; troublesome; irksome
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  1. Causing bother; annoying; troublesome; irksome
irksome
Causing annoyance, weariness, or vexation:
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  1. Causing annoyance, weariness, or vexation:
  2. Disagreeable or troublesome by reason of long continuance or repetition; bothersome; annoying; irritating; wearisome; tedious.
  3. That tends to irk; tiresome or annoying
nettlesome
That nettles, or annoys
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  1. That nettles, or annoys
  2. Causing irritation or distress; vexatious.
plaguy
Vexatious; bothersome.
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  1. Vexatious; bothersome.
  2. Causing annoyance or bother, irritating
  3. (Informal, Dial.) Annoying; vexatious; disagreeable
provoking
Troubling the nerves or peace of mind, as by repeated vexations:
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  1. Troubling the nerves or peace of mind, as by repeated vexations:
  2. That provokes; esp., annoying or vexing
troublesome
Giving trouble or anxiety; vexatious; burdensome; wearisome.
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  1. Giving trouble or anxiety; vexatious; burdensome; wearisome.
  2. Characterized by or causing trouble, irritation, difficulty, distress, inconvenience, etc.
vexatious
Causing or creating vexation; annoying:
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  1. Causing or creating vexation; annoying:
  2. (Law, of an action) Commenced for the purpose of giving trouble, without due cause.
  3. Characterized by or causing vexation; annoying, troublesome, etc.
Find another word for galling. In this page you can discover 15 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for galling, like: annoying, irritating, bothersome, rankling, disturbing, annoying, bothersome, irksome, irritating, nettlesome and plaguy.

Sentence Examples

  • Obedience he made one of his great instruments, yet he never intended it to be a galling yoke.

  • A Jesuit lives in obedience all his life, though the yoke is not galling nor always felt.

  • This was no less than the rising of the whole Celtic race, who had felt the galling yoke of Edward I.

  • A steep slope, vineyards, low stone walls and abatis had all to be surmounted, under a galling fire from the Bavarian musketeers, before the Army of France found itself, breathless and in disorder, in front of the actual entrenchments of the crest.

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