All 5 Uses of
begrudge
in
The Good Earth
- 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.†
Chpt 15 *begrudged = resented; or gave unwillingly
- 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.'†
Chpt 23begrudging = resenting; or giving unwillingly
- 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.†
Chpt 26begrudge = resent; or give unwillingly
- 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.†
Chpt 28
- And Wang Lung promised eagerly and he said, "Get her what she wills and I do not begrudge anything."†
Chpt 33
Definition:
to resent (feel bitterness--usually over unfairness); or to give unwillingly