"galling" is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it to refer to something that is deeply annoying or upsetting. For example, "The thought of hours of unpaid overtime was galling to the workers."
But what is galling is that we are into our fourth week behind bars for what I consider to be some pretty mundane reporting.
The utter lack of comprehension about why people vote Tory, or indeed don't vote at all, has been galling.
He agreed the bonuses were "galling" especially to those suffering welfare cuts following last week's draconian budget.
The same is true of IPTV: there is probably not much money to be made in set-top boxes, but it could help to boost sales of server software.Follow thatIt must be galling for Microsoft that no new market it enters could possibly be as lucrative as the operating-system business a business that has, after all, been declared an illegal monopoly in both American and European courts.
It has been galling for Zhengzhou University graduates to end up with roughly the same certificate as their Shengda counterparts, who they will have had to outperform in exams in order to win their university place.
In 2012 a record 59 arbitrations were launched.The manner in which complaints like these are typically resolved makes them all the more galling: the proceedings are not open to the public and the arbitrators making politically and fiscally important decisions are often moonlighting corporate lawyers.
This may be galling for Israelis, but few would contest that the American air force, with planes deployed closer to Iran and the ability to bring in aircraft carriers, could do a much more thorough job.
All the more galling, then, for Britons to see such stalwart names as Cadbury, Rowntree and Terry's to name only the chocolate-makers fall to foreigners onchocolate-makers fallno longer in contool.
That would be galling for a party that was swept into power in 1994 by militant trade unions and activists in sprawling industrial townships.The second development now rattling the ANC is a rise in militancy among unionised workers and a fragmentation of support for the ANC-aligned Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), the country's biggest labour federation.
The Europeans and Americans find this galling, since they continue to pay for many of Ethiopia's hospitals and schools, as well as handing out free food.
From his flag-bedecked set, Mr Warner talks of the "special responsibility to run a campaign that unites us, not divides us".The Democrats' new-found admiration for Mr Bush is galling for Republicans.
