Crossword clues for grudgingly
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Grudgingly \Grudg"ing*ly\, adv. In a grudging manner.
Wiktionary
adv. In a manner expressing resentment or lack of desire.
WordNet
adv. in a grudging manner; "he grudgingly agreed to have a drink in a hotel close by" [ant: ungrudgingly]
Usage examples of "grudgingly".
Ida had grudgingly accended to the necessity, but had refused to allow one of the instruments in the parlor.
She had nursed for Andy as she had for Brule, and she gave him grudgingly a professional respect.
He sniffed several times, sighed again, and grudgingly beckoned Doli to enter.
Wheat, I gather, is tolerated only grudgingly, deemed spiritually unworthy but somehow necessary: it undergoes a rigorous fivefold sifting and tenfold milling, accompanied by special meditations, before it is made into bread.
Rocinante had been passed by the garagist, though rather grudgingly, as fit to leave.
The public funds were fourpence three farthing a day for each pauper out of which Jem Hocking managed to purloin twopence, while the rest was grudgingly spent on stale bread, onions, barley and oatmeal.
His horse ignored him, continuing to plod grudgingly along through the dense San Linder woods.
Day Oners had grudgingly agreed to the deal provided that the central theme of the curriculum was dirty, exhausting work.
Elspeth had to grudgingly admit, was best summed up by that snidey wee shite Jack Parlabane.
However, he was outranked and outshouted, so grudgingly he allowed the yawer to take three soldiers.
The bartender glanced across the room at Muftak, muttered something under his breath, then grudgingly took the glass and refilled it with the ruby brew.
The drab shades of her blunter were almost lost in the false dark that the storm gave grudgingly to the dawn, and the dark iridescent shades of her thin, earth-tone trousers flattened and rippled against her skin like silk.
Her Grace of Norfolk had repeatedly assured them that they owned a lifetime sinecure of her and her service, it was his bounden duty to keep them at the hall in the style to which they were accustomed so long as they lived and with no common toil or labor expected of them, they had at last and grudgingly agreed to meet with some of the prospective bridegrooms.
When Louise Macon turned to him, he had reached the point where he swung his head around first and then grudgingly followed the movement with his body.
Grudgingly at first, then more willingly as she artfully drew him into a more expansive discussion, Macro talked to her in a way he had never before with a woman.