had been grudging
- past perfect progressive of grudge.
Example Sentences
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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 Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew)
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 Ward, Humphry, Mrs.
And if Nature had been grudging with him, his father was not more kind.
From The Manxman A Novel - 1895 by Caine, Hall, Sir
