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Definition
to resent (feel bitterness—usually over unfairness); or to give unwillingly- I don't begrudge her making a profit, but this is unreasonable.
begrudge = resent (feel bitter about)
- She begrudges every check she writes him.
- who wouldn't begrudge the loss of that sweet day?Alexander Solzhenitsyn -- One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
- Granpa didn't begrudge the money.Forest Carter -- Education of Little Tree
- I know that I deserve my punishment. I do not begrudge it.William Faulkner -- As I Lay Dying
- 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
- He begrudged Emma this constant victory.Gustave Flaubert -- Madame Bovary
- These days, he begrudged no one his success.Nicholas Sparks -- The Longest Ride
- You wouldn't begrudge her bringin' me a little swallow, would you, Billy Boy?Ken Kesey -- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
- Begrudgingly Fache told the operator to forward the call.Dan Brown -- The Da Vinci Code
- Aspen made his way down the hall, and Kota slowly, begrudgingly sat as well.Kiera Cass -- The One
begrudge = resent (wish it had not been lost)
begrudge = give unwillingly
begrudge = resent