begrudgingly

[ bih-gruhj-ing-lee ]

adverb

1. with or despite feelings of resentment or envy:

   With virtually no advertising, he is swamped with work—a fact I begrudgingly admit because he's too busy to take me anywhere!

2. reluctantly; unwillingly:

   I've eaten calf liver begrudgingly, but ultimately I don't like sitting down to a big slab of organ meat.

Word History and Origins

Origin of begrudgingly¹

begrudg(e) ( def ) + -ing ²( def ) + -ly

Example Sentences

You scroll and scroll and scroll until you can’t scroll anymore, and begrudgingly decide on some gauzy teen drama, or defer to whatever generically named chicken wing joint paid for the best placement in the app.

From Eater

He begrudgingly began offering delivery to the immediate neighborhood.

From Eater

Only now I’m begrudgingly aware that the relief I’m looking for isn’t going to come all at once, with a swift crack of the neck.

From Outside Online

Chicago Teachers Union officials accepted the agreement begrudgingly after concluding that they would be unlikely to gain additional concessions from the city.

From Washington Post

This time, the Ayatollah who had begrudgingly worked with the moderates until then, chose to part with them by delivering a final blow.

From Time

It is not a scarce commodity to be meted out begrudgingly or in short portions.

From The Daily Beast

About: A stop-motion animated comedy about two slackers who begrudgingly take low-level jobs on an intergalactic warship.

From The Daily Beast

I begrudgingly listened to the soundtrack of Titanic, a big underground hit in Afghanistan then.

From The Daily Beast

She begrudgingly danced around a sombrero with me but soon rushed off to a basketball game with the grip and electric departments.

From The Daily Beast

The two first met several months ago, when Once was in rehearsals in Cambridge, Mass., and Hansard begrudgingly went to see it.

From The Daily Beast

The Peruvian captain begrudgingly gave Porter a list of all the English vessels in those waters.

From Project Gutenberg

Every moment of his time which Douglas forced him to spend answering irrelevant charges he gave begrudgingly.

From Project Gutenberg

"And the old twin fathers," I added almost begrudgingly, as I cast him my last treasure.

From Project Gutenberg

Perhaps such discussions are for the purpose of "making no concessions" or if they must be made, of making them begrudgingly.

From Project Gutenberg

Mrs. Melker had it good from the day she came, she said, begrudgingly.

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