grudge

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

Garden eventually went on record to suggest that the lack of repeats was punishment for the trio's "disloyalty", saying in 2020: "It seems they've held that grudge ever since."

From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026

Another area of inquiry was the idea that the bomber had a grudge against the Port Authority, whose facilities had endured years of threats.

From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2026

Schneider’s videos of the Lego mission and the fallout have generated more than 25 million views—and he said he doesn’t hold a grudge against American Fork.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026

Tjaden has a special grudge against Himmelstoss, because of the way he educated him in the barracks.

From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque

In a vision statement, Nusseibeh pledged “speaking frankly with every government and answering to none. There will be no exemptions for friends and no grudges against critics.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 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

But it wasn’t in Kanue’s nature to seethe or hold grudges.

From "Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference" by Warren St. John

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

All of them grudged the favors their mother gave Yeshu as her eldest child; he was only half their brother.

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 strikes have drawn grudging recognition from Russian military analysts.

From Barron's ● Jun. 10, 2026

But while the earlier work describes a futurist dystopia, “Glyph” takes place in present-day England, where the siblings Petra and Patricia Wild have reconnected after decades of grudging silence.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026

Sir John Wolfenden, whose 1957 inquiry concluded that sex between men should be decriminalised, was a committed Anglican, and his recommendation was couched in grudging terms.

From BBC ● Dec. 24, 2025

I don’t know if the government’s grudging confession of error played a role in the full court’s decision.

From Slate ● Oct. 31, 2025

His condemnation was severe and wide-ranging, while his praise seemed like a grudging afterthought: Hundreds of blacks had come to their white neighbors’ aid, so why not say so?

From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy