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.
This transition was loathed and resisted long before it was grudgingly accepted and finally embraced by Hollywood interests. Times, Sunday Times
I didn't think his grudging remarks really counted as an apology.
His ideas at first grudgingly accepted, finally won favor.
They may not win admirers but it does earn grudging admiration and respect. Times, Sunday Times
This has not made it popular but it has won the government grudging admiration. Times, Sunday Times
I ain't grudging them their airtime.
Yet Los Angeles receives only grudging recognition as a creative center.
Anna tried to recall the general rules Brill had given " grudgingly " at breakfast. The Soprano Sorceress
He had to admit, albeit grudgingly, that he'd always respected Marlette as a merc. THE DEVIL'S DOOR
His self-assured yet humble presence was fascinating, and I had to grudgingly admit later that I enjoyed watching him play.
Most will stop short of pride but there is grudging respect. Times, Sunday Times
He felt a grudging respect for her talents as an organizer.
He could not help feeling a grudging admiration for the old lady.
This transition was loathed and resisted long before it was grudgingly accepted and finally embraced by Hollywood interests. Times, Sunday Times
This transition was loathed and resisted long before it was grudgingly accepted and finally embraced by Hollywood interests. Times, Sunday Times
None of his colleagues would be grudging about it. The Sun
Real or not, the James Bong Gang has achieved nearly mythical status from begrudging law-enforcement officials. A New 'James Bond Gang' Lives On
Being England captain in any sport can be a lonely place and he always seems to be lauded with grudging admiration. Times, Sunday Times
He begins with a grudging respect for the men from the ministry. Times, Sunday Times
The present racing writer would take second lead, and yes " grudgingly " as there still seemed to be no great fresh news, he could do a follow-up piece this week about Dennis Kinser and his syndicates, always supposing the Voice itself had succeeded in launching the Kinser training career. The Elvis Latte
His parents in Boston are "begrudgingly" supporting his decision, although his mother says she plans to visit. The Stay-at-Home Vacation
Twenty British officers hunted up and down for the places supposed to have been reserved for them, and sweating servants hurried after them with arms full of heterogeneous baggage, swearing at the crowd that swore back ungrudgingly. In The Time Of Light
To 'replenish' the earth is to give out love ungrudgingly to all Nature, -- to 'subdue' the earth, is first, to master the atoms of which the human organisation is composed, and hold them completely under control, so that by means of this mastery, all other atomic movements and forces upon this planet and its encircling atmosphere may be equally controlled. The Life Everlasting; a reality of romance
After months of trying to undo the harm caused by our deception, we finally managed to promote a grudging parental acceptance of the strange new children of humankind.
‘All the financial investment would have been for nought if our staff were working with sour faces and a grudging attitude,’ he said.
It is hard not to have a grudging admiration for the ingenuity behind these schemes.
Meshach kept him respectably dressed, but paid him no wages; the negro had what he wanted, but wanted little; on more than one occasion the court had imposed penalties on Samson's breaches of the peace, and he lay in jail, unsolicitous and proud, until Meshach Milburn paid the fine, which he did grudgingly; for money was Meshach's sole pursuit, and he spent nothing upon himself. The Entailed Hat Or, Patty Cannon's Times
She declared it smooth and sweet, and grudgingly offered me a spoonful.
My questions brought only grudging, evasive answers. The Crossing-Place
I urge you going forward to be ungrudgingly cooperative, Frank said. Bank CEOs get lectured by Congress, promise to do better with next bailout's billions
This has not made it popular but it has won the government grudging admiration. Times, Sunday Times
They may not win admirers but it does earn grudging admiration and respect. Times, Sunday Times
The all-powerful mill owners were forced to grudgingly accept that their workers were entitled to an annual holiday.
So Netanyhu hasn't "grudgingly" accepted this solution, he's offered it himself. Tundra Tabloids.......
Grudgingly I have had to admit that each of us is more complicated than our "labels" would imply.
This transition was loathed and resisted long before it was grudgingly accepted and finally embraced by Hollywood interests. Times, Sunday Times
From Oswestry he went to Donnington near Shrewsbury, where under a certain Scotchman named Douglas, who was an absentee, and who died Bishop of Salisbury, he officiated as curate and master of a grammar school for a stipend — always grudgingly and contumeliously paid — of three-and-twenty pounds a year. Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery
He inspires grudging respect and a good degree of trepidation. Times, Sunday Times
Poverty and misery have not imbued these characters with dignity but rather have made them covetous and begrudging.
The ANC "grudgingly" called a media briefing to respond to allegations made by Congress of SA Trade Unions (Cosatu) general secretary News24 Top Stories
Well, calling this a grudging or a reluctant acceptance is a huge understatement, Bob.
The film studio grudgingly agreed to allow him to continue working.
While she spent her evenings preparing, he maintained an intermittent vigil at the bedroom window, offering some grudging help between observing sessions.
My support of Congress is grudging and lukewarm - for lack of anything better.
This acknowledgement is almost grudging and apologetic.
A clunking old metal elevator struggled to make its way to the ground floor, then grudgingly opened its doors to allow myself and a frazzled woman to embark.
Being poor white, they were not even accorded the" grudging respect that Angus Macintosh's dour independence wrung from neighboring families.
There seems to be a grudging acceptance of the situation.
Well, I have a grudging admiration for the advertising sociologists.
Rather, the first generation of Knights equated American manhood directly with Catholic religious faith and, by extension, the ungrudging performance of familial obligations.
She earned his grudging admiration and unshakable loyalty.
Newsom said in an interview he "begrudgingly" supports Proposition 1A but opposes borrowing money from lottery earnings. AroundTheCapitol.com
She ungrudgingly accepts her fate without a whisper of frustration.
She earned a B, a B+, a grudging A -; her grammar improved as she read and worked in her other classes. A Name
I eventually and begrudgingly passed it on, but only once the burning bud had been smoked to ash.
Eventually the kid bumps into someone, their parent immediately glares at the person who's been run into or grudgingly tells their kid to behave who immediately carries on as before.
Additionally, the grudging acceptance of the Welsh victory was subsumed beneath an avalanche of regurgitated nonsense on qualification from the previous week.
First you get a period of moral panic, then a grudging, dismissive acceptance, and then, eventually, a recognition of cultural worth.
A blazing argument ensued, and we finally, albeit grudgingly, compromised on a plan to leave the next day, in the late afternoon.
He was not even gracious enough to apologise and did not do so until some time later when it became expedient, in terms of his public image, to offer a grudging and less than grovelling apology.
A man at first, perhaps, feels a kind of grudging and uneasiness all over his body, a deadness upon his stomach, and a drowsiness upon his senses, and he cannot well tell what he ails; but after a few days these uncertain beginnings come to rage in a burning fever, or to strike him with an apoplex; and then it appears what those symptoms foreboded and tended to all along; and the great question now is, not when or how soon the man shall recover and be well, but whether or no he shall live. Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. IV.
He grudgingly acknowledged having made a mistake.
And we're the schnooks who gape and give these people our grudging or not so grudging admiration.
There was some grudging applause at the final curtain, but I got the feeling it was more for the sake of form, rather than actual enjoyment.
If the Tories seem like the nasty party again, disaffected Labour folk could well slouch back home, albeit grudgingly.
As a political liberal who is also a devout Baptist, I have grudging admiration for my conservative coreligionists.
"Well, yes, she is not ill-looking," Harbury admitted grudgingly.
He is stiff, self-conscious, grudging, coy and ungenerous.
By this time it was clear that I was not about to set the world of biology aflame -- not many people were interested in octopus behavior -- and so after the university grudgingly gave me Michael Gruber explains the inspiration behind his 2007 intellectual thriller, The Book of Air and Shadows
But when they talk about the victim culture, I grudgingly shut my mouth in acknowledgement of the unhealthiness of it.
Let's be very clear, the comment that I "grudgingly" accepted gangs is way off base and contrary, as usual, to the facts. Blogtimore, Hon
At best, this organization achieves a grudging, superficial conformity to officially sanctioned patterns of thought and action.
The servants continue to hover disdainfully on the sidelines, grudgingly carrying out the master's orders.
This has not made it popular but it has won the government grudging admiration. Times, Sunday Times
I will ungrudgingly pay more taxes if it means keeping people in their homes — even the schmucks in overleveraged McMansions. Why I Fired My Broker
Nolan was as high as Fiona, Lewis a grudging applauder. Longshot
They may not win admirers but it does earn grudging admiration and respect. Times, Sunday Times
The young clerk flushed with pleasure at this chorus of praise, rude and indiscriminate indeed, and yet so much heartier and less grudging than any which he had ever heard from the critical brother Jerome, or the short-spoken Abbot. The White Company
I had a sublime salmon tartare with lemon crème fraîche and caviar, and my husband grudgingly let me taste his foie gras/duck parfait / brioche thing.
He is praised grudgingly for being as good as he is: and he is blamed vindictively for not being even better.
After 83 minutes they had finally given an inch, grudging it to Ireland with all their hearts.
Even Sir John Cowperthwaite might have given these statistics grudging acceptance.
And similar admiration for wily politicians who can bend and break election laws with brass and canniness -- even begrudging from the opposition -- is yet another proud Texas tradition. Rob Patterson: Let's Thank Ronnie Earle for Tom DeLay's Conviction
He isn't even a grudging fan of the artist.
He said the ice rink was broken and he "begrudgingly" paid extra for his son to go on some funfair rides. BBC News - Home
She ungrudgingly accepts her fate without a whisper of frustration.
Instead of begrudging us our success, they should be learning from us.
Belief in the kami is a folk tradition in Japan, repudiated or at best grudgingly tolerated by the major religions but still retaining a hold on the popular imagination. Yatterings » London and Hell – Similar places? – Mike Carey interviewed
Every mouthful of food was an acute positive pleasure, now that it was truly their own food, produced by themselves and for themselves, not doled out to them by a grudging master.
Even politicians looking to make their careers at the expense of craigslist's good name grudgingly admit (when pressed) that we have made huge strides. Jim Buckmaster: An Open Invitation to Rachel Lloyd
Grudgingly, we all confessed to feelings of loyalty, however unfashionable that might be.
Over the next couple of days, he grudgingly repairs the fence and begins to make the acquaintance of the odd old lady.
What these films have in common is a quiet power, a sense of humor, and an ungrudging respect for their teens in the difficult double transition from ‘straight’ children into gay adults.
Certainly, the situation worked perfectly against Wales, the pair instantly striking an ungrudging rapport.
It is, in essence, a buddy piece: a fugitive, arrested 30 years before for protesting his government's eugenics program, forms a grudging friendship with an alien.
Genuinely upset by the waiter's ignorance of dead languages my teacher grudgingly had to settle for ordering in the modern vernacular.
A real screamer, so long as it is a safe distance from goal, will be ungrudgingly applauded by opposition fans.
To begin with, you'd strive for being a mensch by giving cheerfully and compassionately and not grudgingly.
A large proportion of that grudgingly imported rice is sold for animal feed, glue and a variety of other low-grade uses. Times, Sunday Times
`She's taken over the books, and seen to the wages, an "all...' It was said grudgingly by way of explanation only, not in commendation. A WORM OF DOUBT
After getting a good deal of (sometimes grudging) praise for being cautious on the Rove indictment story, and making slow, incremental progress in other areas, the last thing we need to do is “sink to their level” on an issue like this, especially inviting the good guys to start untrue (or at least unfact checked) swiftboating. Firedoglake » David Broder, Pantysniffing Pervert
Some retailers have only grudgingly implemented it, in some cases by using a typeface which is small enough to be unreadable.
Failure always leads to arguments, fisticuffs and grudging reconciliation.
So completely had he aliened the affections of officers and men that the ordinary salute in recognition of his rank was given grudgingly, if at all. Red-Tape and Pigeon-Hole Generals As Seen From the Ranks During a Campaign in the Army of the Potomac
Hitchcock seems more interested in his Dover sole than in the girl but grudgingly answers her questions.
Release a mealy-mouthed apology filled with double-entendres which make it clear that the apology is grudging and insincere. Sanford on Wilson: 'It's time to move on'
Still, she grudgingly sews bell-bottom pants for her son and his friends.
As time passes, a grudging mutual respect develops.
Meanwhile, the British Horseracing Board earned widespread criticism for its proposal to hike up the rates newspapers pay to publish racecards - it was eventually forced into a grudging climbdown.
The book explores the relationship between an impossibly eccentric contemporary composer and his grudging biographer.
People are incredibly grudging about this recovery. Times, Sunday Times
Ask a secular Palestinian or Lebanese civilian which of their political parties they trust most, and even the most begrudging among them may name Hamas or Hezbollah as the "cleanest" of their politicians. Sharmine Narwani: Interview: Hezbollah And Hamas on Obama, Netanyahu, Terrorism ... And Oprah
The duo play a bitterly estranged double act of stage magicians grudgingly reunited for a comeback. Times, Sunday Times
None of his colleagues would be grudging about it. The Sun
He looked at Nick with grudging respect.
Most will stop short of pride but there is grudging respect. Times, Sunday Times
Yet in the wake of his greatest disappointment, losing the World Cup final at home in 2003, he delivered a speech to the press full of pride for his own team and honest, ungrudging admiration for the victors.
There was a general, reluctant, grudging assent to do this, but they were all complying when suddenly a voice broke in.
She gave her grudging approval, though the world must have seemed more dangerous than ever in the midst of a cholera epidemic that claimed sixteen thousand Parisians between March and May 1849.
This apportions the body's food supplies rather as a grudging quartermaster distributes equipment in a forces barracks. Fats, Nutrition and Health
No one will ever again be as knowledgeable about every bird species across all of Canada, nor offer such ungrudging and unselfish assistance.
Yet as his longtime friend and Boswell, Joe Conzo, notes in "Mambo Diablo: My Journey With Tito Puente" 2010, the percussionist, composer and bandleader apparently had a grudging respect for labels; he despised the word "salsa" as a generic indicator of Hispanic pop, but he welcomed the term "Afro-Cuban music. Long Live the Mambo King
Newspapers previously ambivalent to him are now grudgingly behind him.
I think after the anger comes some sort of grudging acceptance, but it's not going to be a very calming acceptance.
Johnson offers only grudging admiration for Cezanne, and he flirts with the idea that Picasso was a charlatan.
After a while, she sort of grudgingly accepts him, and their relationship provides much of the comic relief in the series.
Now sheep grudgingly ambled out of our way as we crossed open pasturage, and then ventured into the wilder hills beyond. THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
But grudgingly confirmable, meaning Democrats may disagree strongly with his views, but they'd be in a hard position to argue with his qualifications or his credentials. CNN Transcript Oct 31, 2005
Historians and map-makers ignored many of his achievements, grudgingly acknowledged those they could not completely disregard and brazenly attributed his most important discoveries to others.
Far from hating Damien, Sek had to feel a sort of grudging respect for him, especially considering his calm and logical, and remarkably thoughtful, comment in response to his blow-up.
As long as they avoid neighbourly confrontation and keep their congregations below a certain size (usually about 25), the Protestant ones are mostly tolerated, grudgingly.
His manacles were a constant, a twenty-four-hour-a-day weight his body grudgingly accepted in spite of the rawness and swelling caused by the dig of unforgiving metal. Honorbound
There seems to be a grudging acceptance of the situation.
The rest came to me in a begrudging line, each of them taking her paper and tucking it safely away. Ominous
A meagre, whitish soil, thirsty and unrecuperative, afforded grudging sustenance to a puny, grotesque growth of blackjack and chincapin, even the renovating pine -- the badge of the State -- being in many places a rarity. "The Free Negroes of North Carolina"
Often, only the pressure of the spending timetable in the plan forced grudging assent out of some of the voting members.
Let him taste your irony; ply him with your keen incessant questions; and if you will, perorate with the mighty Zeus charioting his winged car through Heaven, and grudging if this fellow get not his deserts. Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 01
he grudgingly agreed to have a drink in a hotel close by
Gabe was busy putting on all his weapons and wouldn't even look at me, so I grudgingly got up and scuffled over the carpet.
Finely carved brass metal items are comparatively costlier, but connoisseurs of art can ungrudgingly pay for it considering the amount of effort that goes into making these artefacts and the cost of the metal.
And this isn't just a grudging type of support offered through clenched teeth: they are advertising the fact with a huge ‘Good Luck England’ poster filling an ornate window.
I was a career thief and I suppose there is grudging respect on both sides.
Yet, as we know from diaries and letters of the period, many of London's propertied classes seem to have believed, however grudgingly, that power was passing back to the Stuart dynasty.
The film studio grudgingly agreed to allow him to continue working.
No wonder the rights of citizenship were granted only grudgingly, except when the town urgently needed to increase its population.
Begrudgingly, the guru agreed and the priest left to collect the necessary paraphernalia.
She at first "was kind of begrudging that Michael Goldenberg [scriptwriter for OotP, her first film] wasn't going to stay on, you know?, The Leaky Cauldron - News
This world is thick with De Boursy-Williamses, throwing in bromides with a liberal hand, ungrudging of strychnine, happily at home with quinine and cathartics, ready at a case of simple rubeola; hideously, secretly, helplessly perplexed between the false diphtheria and the true; treating internal cancer and fibrous tumours as digestive derangements for happy, profitable years, until the specialist comes by, and dissipates with a brief examination and with half a dozen trenchant words the victim's faith in the quack. The Dop Doctor
Another difficulty is the need for a positive rather than grudging approach to recognition. Personnel Management: A New Approach
This has not made it popular but it has won the government grudging admiration. Times, Sunday Times
But people either have your back and you have theirs ungrudgingly, or you keep looking. Carolyn Hax: Her 'perfect' dad set high bar for men to clear
They may not win admirers but it does earn grudging admiration and respect. Times, Sunday Times
What made her so irritating to a horde of jealous and grudging admirers was her ability to navigate a respectable media career and at the same time intersperse it with unashamed gaudiness.
Dragila, who has won every honour possible in her event, also earned the ungrudging respect of the six times men's champion, who had previously been dismissive of the fledgling women's event.
He even earned his opponents' grudging respect.
Sighing heavily and muttering a few choice words about his lazy companion, he begrudgingly hauled her onto his back and piggybacked her all the way back to their apartment.
She was very grudging in her thanks.
Most will stop short of pride but there is grudging respect. Times, Sunday Times
But then—almost grudgingly, it seemed—a few spots on the chambers wall took on the familiar, semitranslucent, gelatinous cast. Love and Death
Malloy called his comments "repugnant" and said they represent "either a horrible lack of judgment or worse" - Mr. Maturo apologized, at first grudgingly and then with a long statement offering his "sincerest apologies" for what he called an "insensitive and off-collar comment. NYT > Home Page
Though they begrudgingly admitted immediately afterward that "this material of course does prompt you have this thought.
The newspaper offered only a grudging apology for its reprehensible victimization of Lee and did not discipline any of the reporters involved.
Never saw anything better," King admitted ungrudgingly, as the mare came back at a walk to her picket rope. In The Time Of Light
The Mallard grudgingly accelerated, sheets of spray thrown out, the airspeed creeping up. CORMORANT
Most will stop short of pride but there is grudging respect. Times, Sunday Times
What he gives is gracious, whereas what we give is dutiful - which is not to deny that it is enjoyable, heartfelt and ungrudging.
My questions brought only grudging, evasive answers. The Crossing-Place
He chewed his lower lip in a grudging silence.
Though Pompey was still an eques, Sulla grudgingly allowed him to triumph; and in 80, after the death of his wife Aemilia, Sulla's stepdaughter, he married Mucia Tertia, a close connection of the Metelli.
If, or more likely when, such ambiguities cease to sustain the grudging standoff between Greece and its northern creditors, the nation will be on a slipway out of the single currency club. Employment and the euro crisis: bringing it all back home
This has not made it popular but it has won the government grudging admiration. Times, Sunday Times
The way Hugo phrased his words they were more of a command than a request and Solomon grudging obliged.
One, I'm poor, making the buying of clothes more of a begrudging task than anything else. Blink blink blink
After Queen Margherita visited the region, 19 years later, it grudgingly expanded its offering to include the new trend – tomatoes, mozzarella and basil, and so it remains today: the only nod to modern excess is a doppio mozzarella. How to cook the perfect pizza
Not begrudging the mosquito that infected him, Muir seemed to anticipate the Deep Ecology movement by a full century: "The universe would be incomplete without man, but it would also be incomplete without the smallest transmicroscopic creature that dwells beyond our conceitful eyes and knowledge. Outdoor Adventures
Then who is it using the name "Bill McDonald," admittedly a common one, who does spend a lot of space 'begrudging the suits' just about everything? Professor Florida's kids get *really* creative (Jack Bog's Blog)
This has not made it popular but it has won the government grudging admiration. Times, Sunday Times
Blake's company commander in the Arakan gave a grudging testimonial by letter. TANK OF SERPENTS
He begins with a grudging respect for the men from the ministry. Times, Sunday Times
But San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, who announced his gubernatorial bid Tuesday, said in an interview that he is only "begrudgingly" supporting Proposition 1A and Proposition 1B - a measure to pay schools $9.3 billion education advocates say is owed. San Francisco Sentinel
After World War II, universal adult suffrage resulted in women being grudgingly accepted as partners in the political process.
The latter received a begrudging acknowledgement – along with Monbiot and Pearce still calling for his head. Shock horror: Naked denialist narrative runs rampant | Serendipity
A demoralized royalist party licked its wounds and tried to pay off its debts; a dejected majority of the old parliamentarian party grudgingly did what they were told but little more.
The popularity of the bicycle, which enabled women much more freedom (and also brought about the grudging acceptance of the bloomer) from chaperonage and from past restrictions concerning their contact with places outside of the home. Introduction: Edwardian Women’s Fashions | Edwardian Promenade
A line or two of grudging praise is all he gets when a eulogy might be in order.
A hard, cold Christmas it was proving to be, that year of 1135, all bitter black frost and grudging snow, thin and sharp as whips before a withering east wind. A Rare Benedictine
The subject was of course CBS's grudging acknowledgement that the 60 Minutes documents might possibly be inauthentic.
While there was a grudging acceptance that amalgamation would proceed, there were two troubling outcomes.
The image of Magna Carta being grudgingly given by a cornered tyrant still remains.
In fact, is there perhaps a grudging admiration for their business acumen? Times, Sunday Times

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