grudging
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Adjective[edit]
grudging (comparative more grudging, superlative most grudging)
- Unwilling or with reluctance.
- her grudging acceptance that her rival deserved the award
- 2001, David L. Lieber, Jules Harlow, Etz Hayim: Torah and Commentary, page 25:
- A terse account, with no further explanation or detail, an indication perhaps of a grudging heart behind the offering.
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unwilling or with reluctance
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Verb[edit]
grudging
- present participle and gerund of grudge
Noun[edit]
grudging (plural grudgings)
- The state of bearing a grudge.
- 1806, Matthew Henry, An Exposition of All the Books of the Old and New Testaments:
- Fretfulness and discontent expose us to the just judgment of God; and we bring more calamities upon ourselves, by our murmuring, distrustful, envious groans and grudgings against one another, than we are aware of […]