Chafed

He chafed under the groundless criticism.

The horse chafed at the bit put in its mouth.

The collar chafed her neck.

She was appalled by West Egg, this unprecedented "place" that Broadway had begotten upon a Long Island fishing village—appalled by its raw vigor that chafed under the old euphemisms and by the too obtrusive fate that herded its inhabitants along a short-cut from nothing to nothing.