Definition of "begrudging" [begrudging]

• Present participle of begrudge. (verb)
• Envious (adjective)
• Reluctant (adjective)

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• "While James has absolutely benefited from his marriage to Bullock, garnering a kind of begrudging, weird and unnatural air of respectability, Bullock has so far managed to remain above Jesse's reputation and keep her own fun and sexy image."
• "She at first "was kind of begrudging that Michael Goldenberg [scriptwriter for OotP, her first film] wasn't going to stay on, you know?,"
• "The rest came to me in a begrudging line, each of them taking her paper and tucking it safely away."