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Grudge   /grədʒ/   Listen
Grudge

noun
1.
A resentment strong enough to justify retaliation.  Synonyms: grievance, score.  "Settling a score"
verb
(past & past part. grudger; pres. part. grudging)
1.
Bear a grudge; harbor ill feelings.  Synonym: stew.
2.
Accept or admit unwillingly.






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"Grudge" Quotes from Famous Books



... you needn't look so cross. You know I was hard put to it w'en I sent you aboord the 'Fair Nancy,' and you shouldn't ought to owe me a grudge for puttin' ye in the way o' makin' ...
— Freaks on the Fells - Three Months' Rustication • R.M. Ballantyne

... have the greatest confidence in Maria Lady Rowndell's taste, and certainly I bear no grudge. I may be able to arrange something. ...
— Buried Alive: A Tale of These Days • Arnold Bennett

... who have reason to hate you as I do; people whom you have pursued as you have pursued me; those whom you have sent to prison; those whose careers you have interrupted; those you have threatened; and those who have cause for holding a grudge against you. ...
— A Woman at Bay - A Fiend in Skirts • Nicholas Carter

... good as those which we are daily making. It is ridiculous enough to see strangers coming here to purchase old swords, the greater part of which are mere rubbish, and never made at Toledo, yet for such they will give a large price, whilst they would grudge two dollars for this jewel, which was made but yesterday"; thereupon putting into my hand a middle-sized rapier. "Your worship," said they, "seems to have a strong arm, prove its temper against the stone wall;— thrust ...
— The Bible in Spain • George Borrow

... recognised that he was a dependent part of a vast and complicated system. If he, Vincent Hardy, was a bad hat, who was to blame for it? Obviously, civilisation for providing him with temptation, and society for supplying encouragement. As a consequence he owed both civilisation and society a grudge. ...
— Audrey Craven • May Sinclair


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