GRUDGING in a Sentence
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54 example sentences for GRUDGING, such as:
1. You are envious, Biddy, and grudging.
2. He grudges every penny he has to spend.
3. I always feel she has a grudge against me.
4. England beat New Zealand in a grudge match.
5. I think he's harbouring some sort of grudge against me.
2. He grudges every penny he has to spend.
3. I always feel she has a grudge against me.
4. England beat New Zealand in a grudge match.
5. I think he's harbouring some sort of grudge against me.
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Meanings and Examples of GRUDGING
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grudging
a. unwilling or with reluctance; stingy
Classic Sentence: (43 in 3 pages)
1 After a pause he added "sir" in a dilatory, grudging way.
2 You are envious, Biddy, and grudging.
3 I suppose not,' returned my aunt, rather grudging the admission; 'but it's very aggravating.
4 How I was, in a grudging way I have no words for, envious of her grief.
5 I don't mind acknowledging to you that I've got rather a grudging disposition, and want to keep off all intruders.
6 Being poor white, they were not even accorded the grudging respect that Angus MacIntosh's dour independence wrung from neighboring families.
7 It was the same intangible, unspectacular courage that all the Wilkeses possessed, a quality which Scarlett did not understand but to which she gave grudging tribute.
8 The lips of men in Gopher Prairie are flat in the face, straight and grudging.
9 I'd given one man and thought it too much, while he gave four without grudging them.
10 Yes, I can work as hard as he can, and with as little grudging.
11 Every mouthful of food was an acute positive pleasure, now that it was truly their own food, produced by themselves and for themselves, not doled out to them by a grudging master.
12 He was hungry for, except some biscuits which he had asked two grudging curates to bring him, he had eaten nothing since breakfast-time.
13 The wise and attentive precautions adopted for his safety touched Richard's feelings, and removed any slight grudge which he might retain on account of the deception the Outlaw Captain had practised upon him.
14 He had a grudge and a grievance: that was obvious to any true-born English gentleman, who would scorn to let such a thing appear blatant in his own demeanour.
15 Yet one could see a grudge against the Chatterleys peep out in her; the grudge against the masters.
Example Sentence:
1 We received only grudging support from the mayor despite his earlier promises of aid.
2 England beat New Zealand in a grudge match.
3 He might have been murdered by a former client or someone harbouring a grudge.
4 I always feel she has a grudge against me.
5 I think he's harbouring some sort of grudge against me.
6 The students have to stop protesting and grudge the higher tuition money.
7 The essence of meek is to be patient with ignorance, slow to anger and never hold a grudge.
8 Bill grudged Dick his prize even though he had won a better prize himself.
9 Don't hold grudges against people who have hurt you; you should forgive and forget.
10 He grudges every penny he has to spend.
11 The visible manifestation of how real a century-old conflict was in places where time passed slowly, grudges died hard, and handed-down memories hung on and on.