grudge

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

Plus, he’s prepared to drop a grudge occasionally when it suits him.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 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

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

Riddle had been harboring a grudge against Pimlico since 1926, when the track’s racing secretary had assigned his colt Crusader 126 pounds in a major race—Crusader lost to a horse carrying 93 pounds.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026

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

From Slate ● Jun. 16, 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

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

She doesn’t understand what use my looking nice would be, me with my grudges and feuds.

From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black

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

To make Waltham pay off, he dropped the designing department, and grudged every nickel spent on advertising, thus let the name be drowned out by younger companies.

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

By the end of World War II, Churchill would admit a grudging respect for Eisenhower.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026

All in all, it was a long-standing and uneasy truce where both sides complained while maintaining a grudging tolerance.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss