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But the companies are grudging at best when it comes to being open about themselves.

From New York Times • Oct. 15, 2017

And such labour is of love all compact; for children are grudging in their praise, and seldom trouble to inquire who wrote their stories or painted their pictures.

From Children's Books and Their Illustrators by White, Gleeson

Grim Death And Time are grudging of Life's little span: Wan Time speeds swiftly o'er the waving corn, Death grins from yonder cynical old thorn.

From A Selection from the Works of Frederick Locker by Locker-Lampson, Hannah Jane

Grim Death And Time are grudging of Life's little span:70 Wan Time speeds lightly o'er the waving corn, Death grins from yonder cynical old thorn.

From Poems on Travel by Various