grudge
noun
a feeling of ill will or resentment.
had been grudging
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past perfect progressiveof grudge.past perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.
Example Sentences
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He felt that he had been treated as an embarrassment rather than an ally; and he vowed to himself that the Bishop's whole attitude had been grudging and unfriendly.
From The Case of Richard Meynell by Mrs. Humphry Ward
Always foolishly inflated about David, she had been grudging him even to me during these last weeks, and I had forgiven her, putting it down to a mother's love.
From The Little White Bird; or, Adventures in Kensington gardens by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie
And if Nature had been grudging with him, his father was not more kind.
From The Manxman A Novel - 1895 by Sir Hall Caine
