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Begrudging   Listen
adjective
begrudging  adj.  Being given reluctantly or with displeasure.
Synonyms: envious, grudging.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Begrudging" Quotes from Famous Books



... take the consequences!" he exclaimed. "And he's firin' on us. Down from aloft, all hands!" he roared upward; then he seized the answering pennant from the flag-locker and displayed it from the rail, begrudging the time needful to hoist it. The men were sliding to the deck on backstays and running-gear, and the mates were throwing down coils of rope from ...
— "Where Angels Fear to Tread" and Other Stories of the Sea • Morgan Robertson

... ready, armed and defended on all points, sound in knowledge, unfailing in observation, equally consummate in sophistry when needed by himself, and instantaneous in detecting sophistry in another; scorning no art, however painful; begrudging no labour, however weighty; minute in detail, yet not the less comprehending the whole subject in a grasp,—such was the legal and public character William Brandon had established, and such was the fame he joined to the unsullied ...
— Paul Clifford, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton



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