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grudging
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective grudging has 2 senses
- grudging(s = adj.all) Array - of especially an attitude; "gave grudging consent"; "grudging acceptance of his opponent's victory"
- grudging(s = adj.all) niggardly, scrimy - petty or reluctant in giving or spending; "a niggardly tip"
OXFORD DICTIONARY
grudging, adj. reluctant; not willing.
Derivative
grudgingly adv. grudgingness n.
THESAURUS
grudging
apathetic, backward, balking, balky, begrudging, covetous, desirous of, dilatory, envious, envying, green with envy, indifferent, invidious, jealous, laggard, loath, mean, mingy, niggard, niggardly, penurious, perfunctory, pinchpenny, reluctant, renitent, restive, shabby, slow, slow to, sordid, unenthusiastic, unzealousROGET THESAURUS
grudging
Parsimony
N parsimony, parcity, parsimoniousness, stinginess, stint, illiberality, tenacity, avarice, greed, miser, niggard, churl, screw, skinflint, crib, codger, muckworm, scrimp, lickpenny, hunks, curmudgeon, Harpagon, harpy, extortioner, Jew, usurer, Hessian, pinch fist, pinch penny, parsimonious, penurious, stingy, miserly, mean, shabby, peddling, scrubby, penny wise, near, niggardly, close, fast handed, close handed, strait handed, close fisted, hard fisted, tight fisted, tight, sparing, chary, grudging, griping, illiberal, ungenerous, churlish, hidebound, sordid, mercenary, venal, covetous, usurious, avaricious, greedy, extortionate, rapacious, with a sparing hand, desunt inopioe multa avaritiae omnia, hoards after hoards his rising raptures fill, the unsunn'd heaps of miser's treasures.
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