- present participle of grudge.
grudging
- covetous adj.
- dissatisfied adj.
- envious adj.
- forced adj.
- grabby adj.
- greedy adj.
- hard-fisted adj.
- hoggish adj.
- involuntary adj.
- jaundiced adj.
- jealous adj.
- piggish adj.
- pinching adj.
- rancorous adj.
- reluctant adj.
- small adj.
- sour adj.
- stingy adj.
- unfriendly adj.
- ungenerous adj.
- unwilling adj.
- vindictive adj.
- envy n.
- meanness n.
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She bribes the boys with ice cream so they’ll indulge her road trips into butterfly country, and even then, compliance is sometimes grudging.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
It’s a connection, a Gazan journalist said, that Witkoff also made with Hamas leaders, being in the unlucky “club of parents who have lost children,” and, this person said, it won him their grudging respect.
From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2026
The strikes have drawn grudging recognition from Russian military analysts.
From Barron's ● Jun. 10, 2026
But there was a sense, a grudging willingness among these Labour voters to give Sir Keir and the government more time.
From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2025
The next day the Husky crews performed a time-honored Poughkeepsie ritual and visited each of their rivals’ shell houses to pay grudging respect to their competitors before taking to the river.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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