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  • Begrudgingly Fache told the operator to forward the call.†   (source)
  • No one begrudges you another poodle.†   (source)
  • Jordan wasn't much for organized religion, but he didn't begrudge others their chosen comforts.†   (source)
  • Undoubtedly, Harry thought, watching him over the top of his own book, Malfoy was begrudging the time he could otherwise be spending in the Room of Requirement.†   (source)
  • I left the shop wearing a pair of rubber boots so large my sneakers fit inside and so heavy it was difficult to keep up with my begrudging guide.†   (source)
  • All around, the High Houses rise to their feet, begrudgingly or not.†   (source)
  • A man on the dole goes home after a day with the bookie or the newspaper and his wife will not begrudge him a few minutes with the ease and peace of his cigarette and his tea and time to sit in his chair and think of the world.†   (source)
  • He's the only one on this ship who doesn't seem to begrudge my existence.†   (source)
  • I may have begrudged her my father's attention, but I respected her way of handling things.†   (source)
  • Father doesn't begrudge us those few hours and thinks it's nice we get along so well.†   (source)
  • —and Nick just gave a flat begrudging thanks.†   (source)
  • I don't begrudge him.†   (source)
  • Aspen made his way down the hall, and Kota slowly, begrudgingly sat as well.†   (source)
  • I will never begrudge him happiness-I only wish it could be with me.†   (source)
  • Could I begrudge her that?†   (source)
  • Not that I begrudge my life in books.†   (source)
  • To accept it would require awakening fully into the terrible necessities of Arrakis where they must guard even fractional traces of moisture, hoarding the few drops in the tent's catchpockets, begrudging a breath wasted on the open air.†   (source)
  • The Rose Garden Hotel, while hardly luxurious, is certainly homely and comfortable, and one cannot begrudge the extra expense of accommodating oneself here.†   (source)
  • Begrudgingly, they walked out.†   (source)
  • Unlike Kim, Steve didn't begrudge Ronnie the fact that she was growing up.†   (source)
  • Cora looked begrudgingly at the flyer.†   (source)
  • "Oh, you ain't got much begrudging to do," Jake said.†   (source)
  • You wouldn't begrudge her bringin' me a little swallow, would you, Billy Boy?†   (source)
  • Still, she was content with her lot and did not begrudge Katrina and Roran their happiness.†   (source)
  • How then could he begrudge her her jealousy of his very real mistresses?†   (source)
  • They went to a disco somewhere and she watched Miles and Acey dance and they looked totally great together and she felt a little jealous, of course, and she still felt jealous half a minute later—not jealous but begrudging—when Acey danced with a woman.†   (source)
  • Max did not begrudge David's initiative to configure the room on his own; he used the room and its singular qualities in ways that Max did not.†   (source)
  • A rattle of the ice, another sip, then, "Now, and in the near future, you will be well paid for your work and no one will begrudge it.†   (source)
  • I don't begrudge you a thing.†   (source)
  • "Now, Aven," Bert chided, "Jamie has his own life to lead, and we can't begrudge him that.†   (source)
  • Begrudgingly, Ignatius turned from the boy's home and fled.†   (source)
  • Begrudgingly I let go, chuckling.†   (source)
  • What saved him from the wrath of everyone around him was partly an unwillingness to give any support to the enemies of the college, but also partly a begrudging understanding that all of his troublemaking was ultimately motivated by a mandate they were never free from themselves: the mandate to speak the rational truth.†   (source)
  • "For three thousand men, I suppose I can endure some pipes and porridge," the king said, though his tone begrudged even that.†   (source)
  • No, he didn't begrudge Bryan Mitchell her state of the art.†   (source)
  • Even the rich begrudgingly admired him, though it was a sin for them to feel simpatko with the pain of his songs.†   (source)
  • He didn't begrudge her the need for personal space; he understood well the need for privacy.†   (source)
  • I would sooner walk than sit on the back of any beast so great, free or begrudged.†   (source)
  • He had lived so long not knowing who—or even what—he really was, she could hardly begrudge him the careful alphabetization of his poetry collection.†   (source)
  • She could not begrudge him his industrious amazement.†   (source)
  • Likely enough the Unmaker didn't begrudge Alvin his friend's life.†   (source)
  • They all knew how much they needed and depended on their own church for weekly recharging and cleansing,so they gave without begrudging the Ranger folks.†   (source)
  • Once I had watched three juniors work on him for an hour, trying to break down his indefatigable stamina with a grueling, synchronized combination of running stairs, holding out an M-1 rifle,and pushups, but they never even began to crack Pig and eventually surrendered out of sheer boredom and a begrudging awe.†   (source)
  • Why should you begrudge me a little entertainment after the centuries of boredom and imprisonment you have wrought?†   (source)
  • Here one accepts what is freely given ....but even a child is too proud to touch anything begrudged.†   (source)
  • I don't think anybody in Maycomb'll begrudge me a client, with times this hard.   (source)
    begrudge = resent
  • But pray, begrudge me not my anger!   (source)
  • I know that I deserve my punishment. I do not begrudge it.   (source)
  • I am sure the Dark Lord will not begrudge you the girl, Greyback, after what you have done tonight.†   (source)
  • What would his father say about begrudging a stranger a meal and a night's rest?†   (source)
  • 'But it's time you began sitting up, and I don't begrudge the cost one tiny bit.†   (source)
  • How could I begrudge Margot a first love?†   (source)
  • And I said he should not begrudge it to me, as I had not asked for it and wanted no special favours.†   (source)
  • "I'll keep that in mind," Maven mutters, begrudging the advice but taking it all the same.†   (source)
  • Everyone begrudged their presence among the gifteds.†   (source)
  • Begrudgingly, the Count lay back on the pillows and gestured for her to begin.†   (source)
  • Margot's so excited about it that even in my current state of self-pity, I can't begrudge her.†   (source)
  • "The story was written by a Prussian," said the German, as he begrudgingly lifted his drink.†   (source)
  • When she was alive, we did it begrudgingly.†   (source)
  • He wouldn't begrudge me this: giving just a small bit of love he didn't want to my friend Jacob.†   (source)
  • Dr. Bechel doesn't even begrudge the fact that we kidnapped him.†   (source)
  • And I've never begrudged you the time you've spent with Clary.†   (source)
  • She begrudged me every mouthful, threatening me that we would want it much more tomorrow.†   (source)
  • Even so, he didn't begrudge his mother's desire to bake him a cake to celebrate the transplant.†   (source)
  • These days, he begrudged no one his success.†   (source)
  • If you've been to see her I'd like to hear about it, even though I begrudge you every minute.†   (source)
  • I don't think Jamie or Ian would begrudge you a helping hand.†   (source)
  • She could, however—and did—begrudge the fact that he wasn't there.†   (source)
  • It was a storybook homerun, and even the Biloxi players whistled softly with begrudging admiration.†   (source)
  • You cost me a fortune, but I can hardly begrudge it.†   (source)
  • Shukhov didn't begrudge him his energy; he made another bend in the pipe close to the end.†   (source)
  • It was the porch he begrudged them, not the snake.†   (source)
  • Few who remained at Rowan begrudged the silence.†   (source)
  • They didn't begrudge him shavings or even logs for the office stove.†   (source)
  • He didn't begrudge the tobacco; he resented the interruption in his chain of thought.†   (source)
  • I must admit, however, that I do begrudge you this use of my person.†   (source)
  • Parwana envies her brother, but she does not entirely begrudge him even if he does—she knows that there is more than an element of penance in the monthly cash that he brings her.†   (source)
  • Dad huffed, his tone begrudging.†   (source)
  • I never begrudged doing things for him, and even though he paid me for doing them, it was as if I did them freely.†   (source)
  • Oh, no, says Mam, they won't disagree and they won't step outside, that bunch of tinkers and knackers and begrudgers that hang around the pubs.†   (source)
  • But Amy is the Elliott bread and butter, and she's served us well, so I suppose I can't begrudge her a perfect match.†   (source)
  • The dignified surroundings, however, did little to camouflage the less than dignified state of affairs in the rear of the plane where, in a separate seating area near the rest room, Teabing's manservant Rémy sat with the pistol in hand, begrudgingly carrying out Teabing's orders to stand guard over the bloody monk who lay trussed at his feet like a piece of luggage.†   (source)
  • She's lifting up her face, she's holding out her hands to me for mercy; in her ears are the little gold earrings I used to envy, but I no longer begrudge them, Nancy can keep them, because this time it will all be different, this time I will run to help, I will lift her up and wipe away the blood with my skirt, I will tear a bandage from my petticoat and none of it will have happened.†   (source)
  • That's what you are an' a feckin' begrudger too with your feckin' sangwidge an' your feckin' Sacred Heart of Jesus on the wall an' your feckin' holy water.†   (source)
  • "He couldn't get out of working the shift because one of his coworkers had an emergency" Kitty nods begrudgingly.†   (source)
  • Just take it," the man says begrudgingly, and I beam at him and start to pull my wallet out of my purse, but he waves me off.†   (source)
  • He missed Saphira's companionship, but he knew that she had only a short time to spend with Firnen, and he begrudged her not her happiness.†   (source)
  • And if he is sincere in his devotion to your cause, he will not begrudge you three shiploads of trade goods.†   (source)
  • How could he begrudge it a few crumbs?†   (source)
  • He drained a cup with the Barber, to show him that he did not begrudge him his lordship, even if it came from Euron's hand.†   (source)
  • You begrudge me—†   (source)
  • The ones who still spoke only did so after an uncomfortable pause, in which they seemed to be peering through her before they begrudged her a good morning or evening.†   (source)
  • From bits and pieces of overheard conversations Sansa knew that Jon Arryn's banner-men resented Lysa's marriage and begrudged Petyr his authority as Lord Protector of the Vale.†   (source)
  • She watched them weave and shimmer in the flashing lights and she was admiring and begrudging both, taken by the sight of them, the other woman in jeans and braided sandals, some diplomat's daughter, Klara thought, hair hung down in spiral curls, and how completely easy they were in their physical mien, a grace of a certain passing abandon, searching each other's eyes in the fever strobes, and she was stung by her reaction.†   (source)
  • Adolfo begrudgingly took his position.†   (source)
  • Now and again, yellow flames licked the glass and played about the edges of the pane, while Prusias replied to various petitions with a begrudging yes or an emphatic no. When the imp reached for another stack, Prusias waved him off.†   (source)
  • And as they fought, they spoke: "Oh man of many bodies," said Taraka, "why do you begrudge me a few days within this one?†   (source)
  • He had begrudged no pains to that sauce which had been his undoing.†   (source)
  • She begrudged them the few crumbs of learning she threw at them.†   (source)
  • I know you begrudge it, but she will bless you in heaven.†   (source)
  • And Wang Lung promised eagerly and he said, "Get her what she wills and I do not begrudge anything."†   (source)
  • Your mother shouldn't begrudge the dues.†   (source)
  • "I dont begrudge her the wetting," he says.†   (source)
  • I wouldn't begrudge no man a bait for his horse.†   (source)
  • My own born daughter that has et my food for seventeen years, begrudges me the loan of ten dollars.†   (source)
  • They are enshrined in the hearts of all loyal Southerners, and no one begrudges them the scant monetary returns they make for their risks.†   (source)
  • The tears had started to his eyes when she left, and Luter had said "Come child, do you begrudge your mother the little pleasure she may get to-night?"†   (source)
  • Well, I don't begrudge him that.†   (source)
  • Then Wang Lung set himself robustly to the soil and he begrudged even the hours he must spend in the house for food and sleep.†   (source)
  • He don't seem to mind though, except to begrudge the time while they ain't out on the trail, the time wasted setting down.†   (source)
  • She not only begrudged them every mouthful they ate but she was on tenterhooks lest they discover somehow that Pork had slaughtered one of the shoats the day before.†   (source)
  • In the strained silence, Aunt Bertha, who looked close to tears, kept muttering under her breath—"Begrudges me everything.... His spite, his sour silence ...God blacken his destiny.†   (source)
  • So I don't begrudge him his sweetening.†   (source)
  • Francie was proud of the center altar because the left side had been carved by Granpa Rommely more than half a century ago when, as a young fellow lately come from Austria, he had begrudgingly given his tithe of labor to his Church.†   (source)
  • It was, in a sense, proper that Cass Mastern—in the gray jacket, sweat-stiffened, and prickly like a hair shirt, which it was for him at the same time that it was the insignia of a begrudged glory—should have gone back to Georgia to rot slowly to death.†   (source)
  • This land Wang Lung did not begrudge, even though it was high land and good for wheat, because it was a sign of the establishment of his family upon their own land.†   (source)
  • And his two sons in the house and Lotus he would not allow to touch the opium, saying as his excuse that it was too dear, but he urged it upon his uncle and upon his uncle's wife and son, and the courts were filled with the sweetish smell of the smoke, and the silver for this Wang Lung did not begrudge because it bought him peace.†   (source)
  • We all wished him well, for he was not begrudging, and if a girl was weary sometimes he did not bawl out as some did that he had been cheated, but he always said courteously as a prince might, or some might from a learned and noble house, 'Well, and here is the silver, and rest, my child, until love blooms again.'†   (source)
  • No man can say I begrudge her it" Dewey Dell-has kid Cash's head back on the folded coat twisting his head a little to avoid the vomit Beside him his tools lie.†   (source)
  • But I dont begrudge her it.†   (source)
  • But I doat begrudge her it.†   (source)
  • She would not begrudge me it.†   (source)
  • I dont begrudge her it.†   (source)
  • Do you begrudge her it?†   (source)
  • "One should not begrudge me my little bit of revenge," Hans Castorp went on.†   (source)
  • He remained staring miserably across at the hills, whose still beauty he begrudged.†   (source)
  • I never begrudge any man a nickel he can get away from me—fairly.†   (source)
  • I'm not begrudging Glenn what—what you care.†   (source)
  • She played round him in triumph, sporting with her superiority, which he begrudged her.†   (source)
  • Those are expenses which I do not begrudge.†   (source)
  • He begrudged Emma this constant victory.†   (source)
  • Have you indeed lost all tenderness for me, that you begrudge me a few cheerful moments?†   (source)
  • I did not begrudge him this triumph in articulo mortis, this almost posthumous illusion of having trampled all the earth under his feet.†   (source)
  • I begrudged the room that Jake and Otto and Russian Peter took up in my memory, which I wanted to crowd with other things.†   (source)
  • Her one other thought was that perhaps he was beginning to act a little selfish—to think too much of his own comfort—and yet in the face of his long deprivations she could not very well begrudge him any temporary pleasure, either.†   (source)
  • Then why do you begrudge them tea?†   (source)
  • I begrudge whom tea?†   (source)
  • Yet I would rather my trifle were hid; though, perhaps, a high nater is a little high, and at my birth all things were possible to my Maker, and he may have begrudged no gifts....But under your bushel, Joseph!†   (source)
  • You begrudged your lump of a son," a little old man suddenly began attacking Dron—"and so they took my Vanka to be shaved for a soldier!†   (source)
  • It may be as you say," he continued, reverting to the purport of Heyward's last remark; "and the greater the reason why we should cut our steaks, and let the carcass drive down the stream, or we shall have the pack howling along the cliffs, begrudging every mouthful we swallow.†   (source)
  • One change I noticed amidst the quiet beauty of the fields—to wit, that they were planted with trees here and there, often fruit-trees, and that there was none of the niggardly begrudging of space to a handsome tree which I remembered too well; and though the willows were often polled (or shrowded, as they call it in that country-side), this was done with some regard to beauty: I mean that there was no polling of rows on rows so as to destroy the pleasantness of half a mile of country, but a thoughtful sequence in the cutting, that prevented a sudden bareness anywhere.†   (source)
  • "Yes, that's it!" cried the count, opening his moist eyes and sniffing repeatedly, as if a strong vinaigrette had been held to his nose; and he added, "Let the Emperor but say the word and we'll sacrifice everything and begrudge nothing."†   (source)
  • They sat down to a lunch in the midst of their work, feathers around, above, and below them; the original owners of which occasionally came to the open door and cackled begrudgingly at sight of such a quantity of their old clothes.†   (source)
  • I've danced at your skittish heels, my beautiful Bathsheba, for many a long mile, and many a long day; and it is hard to begrudge me this one visit.†   (source)
  • He missed the bird, begrudged him by Apollo, hitting instead the cord that tethered her.†   (source)
  • Paper is falling again, crushed traffic tickets and field-stripped cigarettes and work from the office and scorecards in the shape of airplanes, windblown and mostly white, and Pafko walks back to his position and alters stride to kick a soda cup lightly and the gesture functions as a form of recognition, a hint of some concordant force between players and fans, the way he nudges the white cup, it's a little onside boot, completely unbegrudging—a sign of respect for the sly contrivances of the game, the patterns that are undivinable.†   (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unbegrudging means not and reverses the meaning of begrudging. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
  • "Begrudge a kinsman a bite, do ye?" he asked, not interrupting his chewing.†   (source)
  • I know I should sleep, but I begrudge every second of waking time.†   (source)
  • Therefore begrudging neither augury Nor other divination that is thine, O save thyself, thy country, and thy king, Save all from this defilement of blood shed.†   (source)
  • "I would venture to swear," said Don Quixote, "that your worship is not known in the world, which always begrudges their reward to rare wits and praiseworthy labours.†   (source)
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