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/grˈədʒɪŋ/ Listen

verb

Grudge v. t. (past & past part. grudger; pres. part. grudging)

To look upon with desire to possess or to appropriate; to envy (one) the possession of; to begrudge; to covet; to give with reluctance; to desire to get back again; followed by the direct object only, or by both the direct and indirect objects. "Tis not in thee To grudge my pleasures, to cut off my train." "I have often heard the Presbyterians say, they did not grudge us our employments." "They have grudged us contribution."

To hold or harbor with malicious disposition or purpose; to cherish enviously. (Obs.) "Perish they That grudge one thought against your majesty!"

Grudge v. i.

To be covetous or envious; to show discontent; to murmur; to complain; to repine; to be unwilling or reluctant. "Grudge not one against another." "He eats his meat without grudging."

To feel compunction or grief. (Obs.)

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"Grudging" Quotes from Famous Books

... journey of uncle Wellington—Mr. Braboy no longer—to his native town; how many weary miles he walked; how many times he risked his life on railroad tracks and between freight cars; how he depended for sustenance on the grudging hand of back-door charity. Nor would it be profitable or delicate to mention any slight deviations from the path of rectitude, as judged by conventional standards, to which he may occasionally have been driven by a too insistent hunger; or ...

— The Wife of his Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line, and - Selected Essays • Charles Waddell Chesnutt

... "Who knows?" she said, shrugging, "she is like all Sienese women. She is fatter than I am. I allow her shape. But she is not near so tall. She is a little thing. She wears her clothes well. And she is merry enough when she has her tongue." I could afford to smile at this grudging admiration. "My dear girl," I said, "you little know her—but how should you? Tell me more. Did you speak to her?" She nodded her head and told her story. "I waited my time. I was washing the canon's linen in the little cloister. That was my job, week in and week out. She ...

— The Fool Errant • Maurice Hewlett

... renewed simplicity of life we shall have leisure to think about our work, that faithful daily companion, which no man any longer will venture to call the Curse of labour: for surely then we shall be happy in it, each in his place, no man grudging at another; no one bidden to be any man's SERVANT, every one scorning to be any man's MASTER: men will then assuredly be happy in their work, and that happiness will assuredly bring forth decorative, ...

— Hopes and Fears for Art • William Morris

... between the officer and the private, and never confound it; Prussian officers are well-educated gentlemen, see that yours are'? Oh no; they are democrats too stanch not to fraternise with an armed mob; they content themselves with grudging an extra sou to the Commissariat, and winking at the millions fraudulently pocketed by some 'Liberal contractor.' Dieu des dieux! France to be beaten, not as at Waterloo by hosts combined, but in fair duel by a single foe! Oh, the shame! the shame! But as the French ...

— The Parisians, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton

... After a grudging commendation of the steps taken in The Book Annexed to restore the Gospel Canticles, the reviewer next puts in a strong plea for a larger allowance of versicles and responses after the Creed, contending that this is "just one of the places where enrichment, much beyond that ...

— A Short History of the Book of Common Prayer • William Reed Huntington

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