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Definition of Gallingly
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gallingly
Literary usage of Gallingly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Bookman (1910)
"... earlier ones of our own foreign critics, as insecurely based on lack of
knowledge and insight, or on faulty observation, as gallingly condescending. ..."
2. Political Ideas of the American Revolution: Britannic-American Contributions by Randolph Greenfield Adams (1922)
"... of the empire such a "moderate dependence as may in no one instance be gallingly
felt, thereby to save the expense of military and other establishments, ..."
3. The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for by Edmund Burke, Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress), John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) (1834)
"This remark intended to be gallingly severe was only absurd, because although
levelled at Mr. Wilkins, it was in fact a blow at ancient architecture ..."
4. All the Year Round by Charles Dickens (1872)
"... and to that looker-on the behaviour of the strange visitor was so ineffably,
so gallingly patronising ! Mr. Statham, did he catch the name rightly ? ..."
5. The Bookman (1910)
"... earlier ones of our own foreign critics, as insecurely based on lack of
knowledge and insight, or on faulty observation, as gallingly condescending. ..."
6. Political Ideas of the American Revolution: Britannic-American Contributions by Randolph Greenfield Adams (1922)
"... of the empire such a "moderate dependence as may in no one instance be gallingly
felt, thereby to save the expense of military and other establishments, ..."
7. The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for by Edmund Burke, Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress), John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) (1834)
"This remark intended to be gallingly severe was only absurd, because although
levelled at Mr. Wilkins, it was in fact a blow at ancient architecture ..."
8. All the Year Round by Charles Dickens (1872)
"... and to that looker-on the behaviour of the strange visitor was so ineffably,
so gallingly patronising ! Mr. Statham, did he catch the name rightly ? ..."
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