begrudgingly
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6.5
- adverb
- /bɪˈɡrʌdʒɪŋli/
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- After a long debate, she begrudgingly accepted the rules of the game.
- begrudgingly accepted
And, and in that regard, I have to begrudgingly give him some credit.
- And, and in that regard, I have to begrudgingly give him some credit.
- And they were begrudgingly accepting of that.
- And about that point, I was like, I'd begrudgingly agreed to surrogacy.
- I pay my speeding tickets begrudgingly.
- Like five years ago, I was on the precipice of burnout, and I begrudgingly took this time off at the suggestion of my business partner.
- I have no problem following up because that's, you know, just kind of this thing that it was the byproduct of what I had done begrudgingly for two years.
- She was willing to yield, but she did it begrudgingly and did it because of what for me was very much ego, not anything else driving that need.
- And I, I say that begrudgingly, but to most people it is.
- And I was like, OK, so we all kind of begrudgingly March out there.
- I would like to say that I will accept this Roach begrudgingly.
- So so that was like a a process that, you know, is kind of awkwardly and be begrudgingly negotiating.
Examples
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And yet, they begrudgingly admit, often in footnotes, that the instructions from the states actually mattered.
Academic text (2016) -
The principle that base closure costs money up front to achieve longer-term savings was begrudgingly accepted by Congress.
Academic text (1993) -
So he starts begrudgingly looking at high schools around here.
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And, and in that regard, I have to begrudgingly give him some credit.
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And they were begrudgingly accepting of that.
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Finally, Nesta begrudgingly gets on board.
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One professor noted, somewhat begrudgingly, that "the community college milieu is one of territoriality."
Academic text (2007) -
And on the morning of the fourth day, the doctor clocked his tongue and pronounced, almost begrudgingly, that she was quite recovered.
Fiction book (1998) -
After four drunken summers of wasting her time, he finally begrudgingly consented to be her boyfriend!
Blog text (3) -
Even Isabel Marant Boy, who is not a Tyra fan, begrudgingly praised the cover.
Blog text (8)
Synonyms
80
3.7
In a way that shows you do not want to do something
17
6.1
Showing you do not want to do something
8
3.4
In a way that shows you do not want to do something
Antonyms
How Reluctant
Surface Forms
Morphology
begrudgingly = begrudging (transparent) = be + grudge + ing + ly
Formed by adding the productive adverbial suffix '-ly' to the adjective 'begrudging', yielding the expected adverbial meaning.
Etymology
Begrudgingly comes from be- and grudge, and grudge means 'resentment' or 'bitterness'. So to do something begrudgingly is to do it while still holding that 'grudge' inside, unwilling and unhappy.