ungrudging
Americanadjective
adjective
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Origin of ungrudging
Example Sentences
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See if he’ll give you one month of ungrudging effort to appreciate what you serve — beyond which you’ll leave him alone to his slop, without so much as an eye-roll.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 31, 2021
The dinosaurs looked on with frank, ungrudging fascination as these latterday fans – Hickey referred to them as “the nouveaux” – fell head over heels too.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 26, 2018
“This splendid lady sandbagged me,” Bloom said in a recent phone conversation, with the lofty, ungrudging admiration of an old general recalling an opposite number’s surprise attack at some long-ago battle.
From New York Times ● Jun. 23, 2016
It is possible that Ms. Rice’s report will finally provide a clear resolution, an ungrudging decision to overturn the conviction or, conversely, persuasive evidence supporting the verdict that will come with Mr. Scheck’s imprimatur.
From New York Times ● Jun. 15, 2013
She adored the Apollo-like heroes of her favourite fiction with an ungrudging wealth of admiration, and she envied hardly less the blushing heroines on whom they lavished the stores of their magnificent affections.
From Peter Binney A Novel by Marshall, Archibald
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