grudge

If the person describing the city holds a grudge against one neighbourhood, that grudge ends up on the map.

From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 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

The U.S. doesn’t hold a grudge against those who renounce citizenship.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 17, 2026

The girl is talking on her cell phone, saying, “I’m telling you, forget it. Vanessa holds a grudge forever. Forever!”

From "Liar & Spy" by Rebecca Stead

Even for a sport built around long-held grudges and territorial animosity, this matchup stands apart.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026

Based on real events, “Sherwood” is both a murder mystery and a contemplation of the damage done by class-based strife and longheld grudges, often based on misinformation.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2026

Burrows said it was not, adding: "I am not a person for carrying around grudges."

From BBC ● Mar. 23, 2026

As for Cornyn, perhaps Trump still harbors grudges for various heresies over the years.

From Slate ● Mar. 2, 2026

Friends of both races now held grudges against each other.

From "The Freedom Writers Diary" by The Freedom Writers

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

No one ever grudged these small, valet-style acts, but in the past couple of years Secret Service agents have been pressed into performing quite different chores.

From Time Magazine Archive

“You’re a clever, slippery creature, Moon Shadow,” she grudged finally.

From "Dragonwings" by Laurence Yep

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 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

By this point, even the most thickheaded and grudging students were being forced to admit that my quick admittance to the Arcanum was something other than a fluke.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss