to grudge

Examples

• All

• Why grudge me the happiness it gives me to get you out of a hole?

  Being Julia (2004)

• We grudge you nothing, for we have now no use for it.

  Fiction book (2002)

• One should not grudge him the first fruits.

  Academic text (2015)

• As he was a writer of considerable gifts, it is hard to grudge his work its success.

  Academic text (2009)

• Don't grudge her her little bit of fun.

  Fiction book (1996)

• By heaven, Fox, I grudge the years that we've spent apart.

  Moonfleet (1955)

• Would you grudge me a glass with me old crony, Meg?

  The Body Snatcher (1945)

• I grudged every minute that took me away from reading, dreaming, and writing poetry.

  Fiction book (2001)

• You wouldn't grudge me that, captain, seeing as all that's passed between us, now would ya?

  A Time for Killing (1967)

• We don't begrudge, and we don't grudge.

  Fiction book (1996)

Synonyms

B

to begrudge

vsto grudge

23 7.6

To feel unhappy when someone else has something, or to give something unwillingly

focuses only on giving or allowing something unwillingly from resentment

Antonyms

W

willingness

194 2.8

Readiness to do something without complaining

G

generosity

128 2.1

Being kind and ready to give money, time, or help to others

Idioms

H

to hold a grudge

• Informal

42 4.8

To feel angry at someone for something they did in the past that hurt you

How Willing

to grant

• Formal

565 3.3

to give

∞ 1.0

to allow

∞ 1.0

to grudge

1 5.0

to withhold

210 5.1

to refuse

716 1.7

Surface Forms

Etymology