begrudges
Example Sentences
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Nobody begrudges Watkins’ success because she still seems so darned untainted by it.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 24, 2024
You will be hard-pressed to find anyone who begrudges her absence from the celebrations; in more than seven decades of service, she has given so much.
From BBC • Jun. 1, 2022
“We all understand how imperative the men’s basketball tournament is to the structure of the N.C.A.A. — nobody begrudges that, we’re grateful for that,” she added.
From New York Times • Apr. 4, 2021
No one begrudges the man who walked behind his mother’s coffin a rush of joy at the birth of his first child.
From The Guardian • May 7, 2019
The truth of this whole matter is that all humanity is prone to discontentment of that kind which not only denies happiness to oneself but also begrudges others the happiness they achieve.
From The House An Episode in the Lives of Reuben Baker, Astronomer, and of His Wife, Alice by Field, Eugene
