grudging

How To Use grudging In A Sentence

• When mistakes are made a full apology is often less damaging than a grudging admission that events have not gone as planned.
• Brown, a captivating and mysterious Midwesterner whose intimate slices of life are as heart-achingly beautiful as she is, will begrudgingly let listeners step into her secret hiding place filled with honest-to-goodness words and music about the human condition. Michael Bialas: Why Pieta Brown Digs the Music of Dylan, Dire Straits and her Dad
• He suggested the justices could "begrudgingly" affirm the lower court "on alternative grounds" and take up some of the questions it avoided in its previous ruling. Justices Leery of Bush's Guantanamo Stance
• They may not win admirers but it does earn grudging admiration and respect. Times, Sunday Times
• Only protracted stagnation of yields brought them to a grudging retreat from farming by decree, and from Lysenko's “agrobiology,” which cast an aura of science over the Stalinist agricultural policy. Dictionary of the History of Ideas
• If the Clinton campaign is finally accepting this reality too, however grudgingly, that is some progress. Obama Campaign Calls For 50-50 Split Of Michigan Delegates
• A series of slapstick events leave both penniless and on the run, where they form a grudging bond.
• People are incredibly grudging about this recovery. Times, Sunday Times
• They were treated as nonentities by the legal and social adjudicators of British later, Australian Tasmania, allowed grudgingly to occupy land on the islands without ever being acknowledged as its owners, and referred to dismissively as “half-castes” or, vaguely, as “the Islanders.” The Song of The Dodo
• When money ran out, they were the only ones working on their land not grudging their son's indulgence in the newfound joys of matrimony.