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- uncountableThe quality of being grudgy, of holding grudges.
We all got along very well, and there was none of that grudginess anymore. Instead of shooting twelve setups a day, as we had with a full crew, we were now shooting twenty-five or twenty-six setups a day.
2015 February 7, Paul Maher Jr., One Big Soul: An Oral History of Terrence Malick, Lulu Press, Inc, →ISBN3 more examples
[…] laughing at her impatience over the delay, and grumbling a little over the grudginess with which they were bestowed; until, finally he threw the roll into her eager hands, and followed his laughing sister[…]
1891, Fannie Ellsworth Newberry, The Impress of a Gentlewoman, page 174Mrs. Pierre glanced around the parlor, and observed with the slightest hint of grudginess in her voice, “You is luckier than most. You is wealthy.” The older woman, obviously waiting for an answer, sat back in her chair,[…]
2003 12, Laflorya Gauthier, Charlotte's Tree, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 108“You can't do anything,” Stanley groaned, “but wait for her grudginess to subside. She's always been like this, but I think with everything that's happened in the past couple months, it's worse.” I sighed.
2016 November 4, Molly Booth, Saving Hamlet, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, →ISBN
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