How To Use Grudge In A Sentence
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If a certain amount of begrudgery is the unavoidable product of such a position of eminence, it is neither fair nor perceptive.
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I didn't really like this new Annabelle at all: she wasn't her old friendly self, she was hostile, brash and rude and she clearly held a large grudge towards me.
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It's a world where dinosaurs are your next door neighbours, and where some of the most famous feuds in history where actually territorial disputes between apatosaurs bearing grudges...
Susanna Clarke in the NY Times
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The Ring made watching the video scary, and The Grudge… well, try walking into a dark room after you've seen it.
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People with a political grudge couldn’t stop themselves from hyping it into something sinister or, at best, evidence of duncery.
Damn them « BuzzMachine
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Certainly, you can confront the transgressor, contemplate revenge, or hold a grudge forever.
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He hasn't grudged Andy a moment of his time in the spotlight but has been desperate for a taste of it of his own.
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They say reporting suspected illegals over the Web will result in people being mistakenly fingered, or let people with a grudge turn in innocent victims.
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This is something of a grudge match against a long-term enemy.
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Some are happy to go round alone while others use golf to settle grudges with colleagues.
The Sun
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Look, no one begrudges you your right to write books, peddle gossip or make money, which given the way your boss treats you, is understandable.
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Nobody would begrudge him a chance to perform on the international stage.
The Sun
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If Feely had a grudge he might well reckon it would be credible to put it round she'd harboured a well-known Shinner.
DARE CALL IT TREASON
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Certainly, you can confront the transgressor, contemplate revenge, or hold a grudge forever.
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The lively little sprite Ariel had nothing mischievous in his nature, except that he took rather too much pleasure in tormenting an ugly monster called Caliban, for he owed him a grudge, because he was the son of his old enemy Sycorax.
Types of Children's Literature
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His crude master grudged him even the food he ate.
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On the red carpet tonight, nobody is going to begrudge her a few stretchmarks.
Times, Sunday Times
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But the softness in Grudge's eyes signified nothing more than plain humanity.
FAIRYLAND
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"No sense in holding grudges, " Lucy replied.
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Not that I'd really have grudged him a snack, you understand, but I'm rather fond of the little baby frogs and heaven knows they have enough trouble making it into adulthood as it is.
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Few would begrudge her victory as she is one of Britain's unsung sporting heroines.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is his business to spend his money and people should not begrudge him his success.
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I don't grudge anyone their share of designer labels - wear 'em if it makes you feel good.
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I think he's harbouring some sort of grudge against me.
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Certainly, you can confront the transgressor, contemplate revenge, or hold a grudge forever.
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Nobody can really begrudge us the three points.
The Sun
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Some men still believe in fisticuffs as a method of settling grudges.
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It's time to forget old grudges.
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While I did not begrudge the President his due recognition, this was a trifle fulsome.
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He begrudged his friend the award.
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Russia and Gabon are blatantly banning all imports of the other white meat, while Egypt has ordered the mass-execution of all of their unhallowed hoggies (although this could merely be a convenient excuse to settle an age-old Islamic grudge -- why must unsanctified flesh taste so delicious!).
Warren Holstein: Preparing for the Swine Flu Apocalypse
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Only a cynic would begrudge her this one moment of romance.
Times, Sunday Times
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On this occasion, judging by the grafitti the begrudgery came from a different source.
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You will handle family life better and can get a stubborn relative to let the grudges go.
The Sun
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Personally I can't begrudge the players high wages because if they didn't get the money it would only go to less deserving people.
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I have also learned that journalists hold grudges far longer and over a lot less than studio executives.
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The pointless grudges and differences that constantly seem to cause us to take up arms against each other will no longer exist, freeing us to pursue knowledge, the arts, and terraforming the moon.
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But I don't think anyone could begrudge us getting something out of that game.
The Sun
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She did not begrudge the money spent on her children's education.
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My only grudge is that the book ended far too soon.
Moon
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It is a measure of the president's continued pulling power that the Europeans, who have seemingly grudged every extra pair of boots the NATO secretary general has persuaded them to dispatch up until now, are to stump up around 7,000 additional troops for the war in Afghanistan alongside the 30,000 more committed by a president who has now more than doubled the U.S. contingent there.
How is Obama being viewed in Europe?
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Nobody could begrudge us all three points.
The Sun
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The regatta finishes with a huge grudge match.
Times, Sunday Times
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It seems like everyone in this family grudges me any fun in my life.
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Not that I begrudge a penny of the money that this Country has spent on helping these people, not a bit of it.
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He grudged every moment of life sleep robbed him of, and before the clock had ceased its clattering he was head and ears in the washbasin and thrilling to the cold bite of the water.
Chapter 16
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You almost don't begrudge paying out in the circumstances.
The Sun
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There was always gossip about longtime rivalries and unforgiven grudges, but they were reluctant to air secrets which might tarnish their collective image.
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No one will begrudge you for slapping those greasies into a chip butty for optimal carbs.
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Maximising profit is in the nature of the animal, and if we want democratic choice, we cannot grudge commercial media exercising theirs.
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Ah well, I don't grudge her that moment of bitter victory.
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Mind you, it helps that you don't grudge me a few of your goldfish.
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Even as he basks in the glory of his school's achievement, he nurses a grudge.
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These points notwithstanding, Joe Cinque's Consolation is a lovely piece of writing and I don't begrudge a single minute I spent curled up with it.
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Interestingly, they haven't experienced one of the usual by-products of success - national begrudgery.
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Otis, who bore lifelong grudges over provocations infinitely smaller than this, was realistic enough to know when he was had.
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Thy father would have flung thee ungrudged, into a hell of bayonets, me, too, and would have followed after, if by so doing he could have served the cause he held in trust.
Rung Ho
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Carrying sports grudges too far, even if the grudge is against a Democrat (via Power Line).
Sports
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Why begrudge money raised for animals?
The Sun
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But for all the begrudgery people should go out and cast their vote.
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She went on to allege that her father had been driven from the Emerald Isle due to typical Irish begrudgery of his success.
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The Grudge continues a seemingly unending tradition of making horror movies without the horror.
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Nobody could begrudge us all three points.
The Sun
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Brant said he would not hold a long-term grudge against Sony "as long as they get the stuff back up and running and nobody has to suffer from it.
Boston.com Top Stories
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You have grudged the very fire in your house because the wood cost overmuch!" he cried.
The Wit of Porportuk
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And Miss Lucy Ashton, that grudged when an honest woman came near her — a taid may sit on her coffin that day, and she can never scunner when he croaks.
The Bride of Lammermoor
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Let there be no begrudgery at least for the few weeks that these special people are within our shores.
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It is a real grudge fight, with genuine animosity between both men.
The Sun
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If we want the best quality representation then we cannot begrudge paying them properly.
Times, Sunday Times
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I certainly don't begrudge him the Nobel Prize.
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Your ability to let old grudges or disappointments go puts you on the success track.
The Sun
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Evander no grudge for overcoming him at fence, but if Sir Blaise proved the better man with the batoon, there would be a kind of compensation in it.
The Lady of Loyalty House A Novel
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Few rational people are going to begrudge someone with a handicap a space near the door to the supermarket.
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Few of the women he was involved with seem to bear him a lasting grudge, however - or to have minded his eccentric, hobo ways.
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You will handle family life better and can get a stubborn relative to let the grudges go.
The Sun
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The third mate is Flask, who seems to have a personal grudge against every whale in every ocean on the globe.
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If we want the best quality representation then we cannot begrudge paying them properly.
Times, Sunday Times
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On his return from Korea Absalom moved in below with Grace, perhaps because his long-term grudge against his older son-in-law had broken out that summer in a public spat.
PEARL BUCK IN CHINA
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An ex-con's efforts to go straight look set to be scuppered by a man with a grudge.
The Sun
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Nozomi will bear no grudge; for it detracts from his happiness and capacity for merrymaking.
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Few begrudge spending money on humanitarian aid such as that going to the Philippines.
Times, Sunday Times
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It was straight, forthright and honest, and, once the situation was resolved, there were no afters, no grudges and no problem.
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There is no doubt it was an accident and I bear no grudges.
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As the main characters are Michael Palin (whose pathological pliability is perfectly caught by Harry Hadden-Paton) and Terry Gilliam (Sam Alexander, who makes his character's grudge against his native U.S. unpredictably attractive), you expect Mr. Thompson to have written his play in Python-length sketches (like the bisexual war hero in a World War II-skit that has to be explained to dumbfounded network executives).
The Witty Bits of a Play
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One of the characters nurtures a long-term grudge against the gods which she is finally able to bring before them.
The Speculist: September 2004 Archives
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They are both the sort to let fly easily and not bear grudges or harbour resentment.
The Sun
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Some will be outraged, but it's hard to begrudge him the money.
The Sun
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I love my siblings dearly and don't begrudge them the money.
Times, Sunday Times
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Nobody could begrudge the man a little bit of peace.
The Sun
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‘Because I'm one of the things that's being negotiated,’ I said acerbically, with my tone as much a grudge toward him as bitterness at being in my position.
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It was a grudge match, one neither could bear to lose, but gathering up the enthusiasm and hunger for the final shouldn't be a problem.
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I have never, not once, looked at one of my peers and begrudged them their success.
Who needs siblings?
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Pros Few will begrudge more money for the health service.
Times, Sunday Times
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Nobody would begrudge him a chance to perform on the international stage.
The Sun
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Fox's Celebrity Boxing scored a knockout in the ratings ring, undoubtedly ensuring a long string of rematches, grudge matches and return bouts.
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I love my siblings dearly and don't begrudge them the money.
Times, Sunday Times
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And no one can begrudge him that after all he has done for Arsenal.
The Sun
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The usual "chevy" was going on there, with more spirit than usual, perhaps, because the darkness allowed of practical jokes and surprises, and offered great facilities for paying off old grudges with secrecy and despatch, and as the Doctor had come to the door of the greenhouse, and was looking on, the players exerted themselves still more, till the
Vice Versa or A Lesson to Fathers
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In short, the said grudger went on with his tale as though there were some big grievance against his master brewing in Longshaw, and our knight deemed that so it was, and that they would hold together the looser, and that thereby we should have the cheaper bargain of them.
The Sundering Flood
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Next week, I advance to the semifinals, where I will take on the winner of the all-in grudge match between the orangutan and the Barbary macaque.
Monkeyshines
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Flavor In the war between the Horde the Alliance, grudges are taken to the hilt.
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But I'm not going to apologise for my begrudgery.
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This is something of a grudge match against a long-term enemy.
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Their success should not be a matter of envy or begrudgery.
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Now Fairon depicted a different sort of pirate: a man, a hurt man, who had a grudge and needed retribution.
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They do not harbour grudges.
Times, Sunday Times
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In my nonage I used to carry grudges, when I matured I got even, now in my dotage I get ahead.
Think Progress » McCain Attacks Blogosphere
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You can help a relative to let go of grudges and feel part of the family.
The Sun
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A simple man, Ramesh does not grudge cricketers getting all mileage.
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The NFL, realizing it had helped create a world of litigation-happy former fans holding serious grudges for having their statistics taken away, instructed all announcers to merely say "ribbit" when a touchdown was scored.
A Doomsday Scenario for Fantasy Sports
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holding a grudge
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There is no reason to grudge the fact that the rain nearly spoiled the Onam celebrations.
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While the ostensible subject of their lawsuit may be money, there is undoubtedly a deep political grudge match as well.
Times, Sunday Times
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A bit of begrudgery never did us any harm.
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Bill grudged Dick his prize even though he had won a better prize himself.
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Some are happy to go round alone while others use golf to settle grudges with colleagues.
The Sun
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She had fallen in love, and he had harbored a grudge ever since.
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This caught me off guard as this language is usually associated with the belittlers and begrudgers who are endemic in society.
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The fact that the rest of the counrtry begrudges an interstate on-ramp, bridge or courthouse at Bob Byrd’s behest is galling considering how little has been spent on the region in the past.
Matthew Yglesias » The Case Against Porkbusting
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He ought to be the citizen of a comfortable world, and he ought to have an ungrudged freedom in it.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 37, November, 1860
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I don't hold any grudges now.
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That does not mean I begrudge the people their freedom.
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A taxi driver was jailed for life yesterday for knifing his wife to death after developing a grudge against her family.
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He was the soapbox orator who could quote Virgil or Shakespeare to give dignity to a bitter grudge.
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They do not harbour grudges.
Times, Sunday Times
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I don't begrudge anybody a right to a square meal and some help.
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Some are happy to go round alone while others use golf to settle grudges with colleagues.
The Sun
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Some of us begrudge paying for a TV licence.
Times, Sunday Times
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You can get the family to let go of all grudges.
The Sun
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Less amusing is his tendency to bear grudges.
The Times Literary Supplement
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We draw up alliances with loyalties thicker than blood and we nurse old grudges with photographic memories.
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Philippa still has/holds a grudge against me for refusing to lend her that money.
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You can help a relative let grudges go and be part of the family again.
The Sun
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But why should we begrudge them good pay for a hard and dangerous job?
The Sun
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‘Ding ding ding, round two,’ he muttered, still bearing a grudge from the burns, and the being thrown into the seats.
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TONIGHT'S big game against Croatia has become something of a grudge match.
The Sun
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I will be honest and say I am pretty liberal in my views (which I won't defend here and simply say I didn't vote for the current set of elected officials), and say that until there comes a time where we can guarantee that I can get on a plane/bus/transportation device and ensure that some whacko is not on there with a grudge or whatever - I am willing to sacrifice my "right" to carry those items.
Don't Drop You Bookmark in the Shower
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I don't grudge him it but he pays more in tax than I was being offered.
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Describing a scene in "Amarilly of Clothes-Line Alley" (1918) where two characters are mocked for their pretensions to individuality and refinement, Mr. Shannon puts in a good word for "the Irish art of begrudgery," the much-noted Celtic practice of ridiculing anyone in the community who had the temerity to stand out.
Visiting Cagney's Neighborhood
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You should bend over backwards to avoid bitter personal rows and the holding of grudges.
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The third mate is Flask, who seems to have a personal grudge against every whale in every ocean on the globe.
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You should bend over backwards to avoid bitter personal rows and the holding of grudges.
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He bears grudges against me, because I broke the egg in his pocket.
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We played very well and I don't think anyone could begrudge us the win.
Times, Sunday Times
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Mark had been raised with farm horses, slaving for the uncle who grudged him house-room and food, and he still rode farm fashion, inelegant but durable, now that the bishop's stable had provided him a fine tall gelding in place of a plodding farm drudge.
His Disposition
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Had the taxpayer at home witnessed the way those upper story windows were put out by the Chester's shells, he would never again grudge the money spent in recent years in target practice.
With Funston's Men
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bear a grudge
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No one will begrudge it to any of them.
Times, Sunday Times
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You can get people to let the grudges go and feel like a family again.
The Sun
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I begrudge every penny I pay in tax.
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And luckily none of them seem to be harbouring grudges!
The Sun
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He has been harbouring a grudge against me.
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Holding grudges and resentment against others will only serve to limit your higher development.
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Nobody in India grudges them their pride and identity as being Muslims, first and foremost.
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You won't begrudge a single one.
Times, Sunday Times
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Sources later explained that he was thought to be harbouring a grudge against the Prime Minister.
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Now, if lionesses held a grudge, and tried to get some revenge on the new Lion King by merely not acceding his advances, or not taking care of his new kids, this strategy wouldn't be common.
What's Wrong with REVENGE?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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Scarce two gentlemen dwell together in the country, (if they be not near kin or linked in marriage) but there is emulation betwixt them and their servants, some quarrel or some grudge betwixt their wives or children, friends and followers, some contention about wealth, gentry, precedency, &c., by means of which, like the frog in
Anatomy of Melancholy
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But this is your last chance to preach to me, so I wouldn't grudge you the taking advantage of it.
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Few would begrudge Kevin the success he now enjoys, particularly since he has played his fair share of less glamorous gigs.
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Police are also examining his personal relationships to identify any reason for a grudge.
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‘You formed a grudge as a result of the breakdown in the relationship,’ he said.
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You can get people to let the grudges go and feel like a family again.
The Sun
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Your ability to let old grudges or disappointments go puts you on the success track.
The Sun
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Because of the fact that he didn't kowtow to a lot of white interests, a lot of people carry a grudge against Miles.
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They are both the sort to let fly easily and not bear grudges or harbour resentment.
The Sun
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I was tired of holding a grudge that was only causing me to be bitter and sarcastic.
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Some suggestions indicate the damage could have been inflicted by a female or someone who held a grudge against the firm.
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If we want the best quality representation then we cannot begrudge paying them properly.
Times, Sunday Times
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Hopefully you won't change what you're doing because of the incomprehension and begrudgery of a very small majority.
Give 'em the Old Razzle-Dazzle, Razzle-Dazzle 'em.
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Pros Few will begrudge more money for the health service.
Times, Sunday Times
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She was the queen that slumbers somewhere in every Cornish imagination, the queen ungrudged.
Kangaroo
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We should not begrudge one player one penny; many have lived too long with financial sacrifice.
Times, Sunday Times
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Less amusing is his tendency to bear grudges.
The Times Literary Supplement
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There are people in the building who still hold grudges from the Reagan Admin, and it shows in a good way.
More like ‘DeMint *schools* Kerry over Honduras.’ - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState
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I mean, I grudge nobody an honest living, but can they still be going?
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Some of us begrudge paying for a TV licence.
Times, Sunday Times
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We should not begrudge one player one penny; many have lived too long with financial sacrifice.
Times, Sunday Times
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Glen Beck begrudges $ 5 million sa isang taon upang protektahan ang endangered dagat Minahal dahil sila ay hindi bahagi ng sariling bayan seguridad at nangangailangan ng isang pang-internasyonal na pagsisikap na mapangalagaan ang mabisa.
Ideonexus.com »2009» Hulyo
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As an ornithologist, I would be the very last person to begrudge money for the condor; I would merely like to see money for human languages as well.
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I for one would certainly not begrudge a few pence more on the price of an abbot (over the costing for a spitfire).
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They are both the sort to let fly easily and not bear grudges or harbour resentment.
The Sun
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You may inflict this harm because you bear a grudge or, more likely, to extort some money.
Times, Sunday Times
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But few who applaud true sportsmanship would begrudge this genial chap every prize available.
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He did hold grudges, whether real or imaginary.
Provided You Don't Kiss Me: 20 Years with Brian Clough
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It is that idealism and sweet sentiment which make Barrichello so endearing and were he able to usurp Schumacher Senior this season, there are few who would begrudge him the title.
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We simply have more important business to attend to right now than nursing an old grudge.
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Further, she threatened, in case Dick grudged these personal diversions, to fill the house with guests and teach him what liveliness was.
CHAPTER XVIII
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Despite the forced change to his hunting habits, Bill doesn't begrudge the summer people their little bits of Nova Scotian paradise.
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Like all the Service personnel one meets in remote places, he is dedicated, and does not begrudge his time.
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Mucklestane Moor this morning as would plenish the house and stock the Heugh-foot twice ower, and I am certain sure Elshie wadna grudge us the use of it. ''
The Black Dwarf
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I've known families that harbor grudges from the past.
Developing Good Family Relationships
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Two of my daughters called me when this incident was ongoing, and said that they thought they knew who the man was in the schoolhouse, that he was some kind of hauler, and that he had a grudge for a long time.
CNN Transcript Oct 3, 2006
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You can help a relative to let go of grudges and feel part of the family.
The Sun
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They are stubborn enough to carry their grudges a long time.
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We should not begrudge one player one penny; many have lived too long with financial sacrifice.
Times, Sunday Times
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Everybody that had the smallest gumption prophesied that he would be a real clever one; nor could we grudge that we took pains in his rearing -- he having been like a sucking-turkey, or a hot-house plant from far away, delicate in the constitution -- when we saw that the debt was likely to be paid with bank-interest, and that, by his uncommon cleverality, the callant was to be a credit to our family.
The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith
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But I don't think anyone could begrudge us getting something out of that game.
The Sun
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And luckily none of them seem to be harbouring grudges!
The Sun
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And luckily none of them seem to be harbouring grudges!
The Sun
