grudging

comparative more grudging · superlative most grudging

1. Unwilling or with reluctance.

   her grudging acceptance that her rival deserved the award

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   A terse account, with no further explanation or detail, an indication perhaps of a grudging heart behind the offering.

   2001, David L. Lieber, Jules Harlow, Etz Hayim: Torah and Commentary, page 25

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of grudge

plural grudgings

1. The state of bearing a grudge.

   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 […]

   1806, Matthew Henry, An Exposition of All the Books of the Old and New Testaments