Sample Sentences for
begrudge
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    I don't think anybody in Maycomb'll begrudge me a client, with times this hard.  (source)
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    With ill-concealed resentment at him: Do you begrudge my bed, uncle?  (source)
    begrudge = give unwillingly
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    who wouldn't begrudge the loss of that sweet day?  (source)
    begrudge = resent (wish it had not been lost)
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    Granpa didn't begrudge the money.  (source)
    begrudge = give unwillingly
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    I would sooner walk than sit on the back of any beast so great, free or begrudged.†  (source)
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    All around, the High Houses rise to their feet, begrudgingly or not.†  (source)
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    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)
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    No one begrudges you another poodle.†  (source)
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    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)
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    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)
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    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.
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    I know that I deserve my punishment. I do not begrudge it.  (source)
    begrudge = resent
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    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)
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