grudge

She doesn’t seem to hold a grudge over her boyfriend’s omission, though.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

Other times, a sergeant holds a personal grudge, or the officers on your cellblock simply don’t like you.

From Slate ● Aug. 11, 2026

“I will hold the grudge for the rest of my life,” she says of former Attorney General Pam Bondi.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026

He added Quailey-Daspher did not know most of her co-defendants, did not know about any grudge match between gangs and was not party to discussions about guns.

From BBC ● Jun. 24, 2026

Mordred had been left to be dominated by her, with her ancestral grudge against the King and her personal spite.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

A common theme in Shakespeare is the danger of nursing grievances and grudges.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 8, 2026

“I do not stand here with hatred for a desire for revenge. I hold no grudges against Mr. Jackson,” Smith said in court.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2026

He said he found it a little “odd” and “extreme,” but didn’t think she held grudges, necessarily.

From Slate ● Jun. 16, 2026

In her 2019 memoir, “Where the Light Enters,” Jill contrasts Joe’s capacity for forgiveness with her proclivity toward grudges, how she recalls “every slight committed against the people I love.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 2, 2026

Her time with Tariq’s family always felt natural to Laila, effortless, uncomplicated by differences in tribe or language, or by the personal spites and grudges that infected the air at her own home.

From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini

Already during a visit to United States in 1906, he voiced his esteem for Black Americans struggling to live dignified lives within “a civilization they are grudged and denied.”

From Washington Post ● Nov. 2, 2021

“There will be some grudging specifics about medical personnel in attendance,” grudged Jan Moir in the Daily Mail, “bouncing baby weight and the actual date of birth – then the shutters will slam down.”

From The Guardian ● Apr. 18, 2019

Yet on the balance of play, few could have grudged St Mirren a replay; they harried and hassled Celtic, with Lee Mair passing up a glorious stoppage time chance to claim a draw.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 2, 2013

I don't think," he once said, "that my men in Italy grudged me a caravan.

From Time Magazine Archive

I grudged the months I had spent with her, employed by her, taking her money, trotting in her wake like a shadow, drab and dumb.

From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier

The other big thing is that in America we also have a kind of grudging admiration for the P.T.

From Salon ● Oct. 16, 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

The author cites Roosevelt’s critics prominently, and his own approval is grudging and qualified.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 29, 2025

In his own home town his name spelled dread and grudging respect.

From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison