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Definition

to resent (feel bitterness—usually over unfairness); or to give unwillingly

begrudge = resent (feel bitter about)

begrudge = resent

I don't know of any landowner around here who begrudges those children any game their father can hit.
Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird

begrudges = gives unwillingly to

With ill-concealed resentment at him: Do you begrudge my bed, uncle?
Arthur Miller -- The Crucible

begrudge = give unwillingly

who wouldn't begrudge the loss of that sweet day?
Alexander Solzhenitsyn -- One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

begrudge = resent (wish it had not been lost)

begrudge = give unwillingly

I know that I deserve my punishment. I do not begrudge it.
William Faulkner -- As I Lay Dying

begrudge = resent

I don't think anybody in Maycomb'll begrudge me a client, with times this hard.
Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird

begrudge = resent

begrudge = resent

Dr. Bechel doesn't even begrudge the fact that we kidnapped him.
Henry H. Neff -- The Maelstrom
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.
Christopher Paolini -- Inheritance
Likely enough the Unmaker didn't begrudge Alvin his friend's life.
Orson Scott Card -- Red Prophet
Even so, he didn't begrudge his mother's desire to bake him a cake to celebrate the transplant.
Nicholas Sparks -- The Best of Me
He missed the bird, begrudged him by Apollo, hitting instead the cord that tethered her.
Homer -- The Iliad
She didn't begrudge me a few minutes of quiet, but the table-setting came first.
Laurie Halse Anderson -- Fever, 1793
I did not begrudge him this triumph in articulo mortis, this almost posthumous illusion of having trampled all the earth under his feet.
Joseph Conrad -- Lord Jim
Those are expenses which I do not begrudge.
Victor Hugo -- The Hunchback of Notre Dame
"One should not begrudge me my little bit of revenge," Hans Castorp went on.
Thomas Mann -- The Magic Mountain
Well, I don't begrudge him that.
Robert Penn Warren -- All the King's Men

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