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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 dollar she spends.
- I don't begrudge her success. She's earned it.
- 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
- With ill-concealed resentment at him: Do you begrudge my bed, uncle?Arthur Miller -- The Crucible
- 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
- I don't think anybody in Maycomb'll begrudge me a client, with times this hard.Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird
- But pray, begrudge me not my anger!Arthur Miller -- The Crucible
- 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
begrudge = resent
begrudges = gives unwillingly to
begrudge = give unwillingly
begrudge = resent (wish it had not been lost)
begrudge = give unwillingly
begrudge = resent
begrudge = resent
begrudge = resent