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Grudging

//ˈɡɹʌ.d͡ʒiŋ// adj, noun, verb

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Unwilling or with reluctance.

    "her grudging acceptance that her rival deserved the award"

Adjective
  1. 1
    petty or reluctant in giving or spending wordnet
  2. 2
    of especially an attitude wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    The state of bearing a grudge.

    "Fretfulness and discontent expose us to the just judgment of God; and we bring more calamities upon ourselves, by our murmuring, distrustful, envious groans and grudgings against one another, than we are aware of […]"

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of grudge form-of, gerund, participle, present

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