What's the difference between begrudge and grudge?
Begrudge
Definition:
(v. t.) To grudge; to envy the possession of.
Example Sentences:
(1) We must not begrudge any woman her happy ending, but the next revolution will be an acknowledgment that happy endings come in many forms.
(2) Forbes writer Patrick Rishe says Armstrong's bullying of team members was worse than the act of doping itself: I don't begrudge Mr. Armstrong the millions he earned in a sport where most of his competitors were also getting a synthetic enhancement to their performance.
(3) Judith Martin Winchester, Hampshire • I have never voted Conservative, and would never consider voting Ukip, but I think Douglas Carswell deserves more credit than your rather begrudging editorial gives him ( Schism-on sea , 29 August).
(4) Peaches is sorry "for any offence caused", although it will presumably be some years before the victims are old enough to have her soz passed on to them – if indeed it came in any more personal form than her begrudgingly farted-out tweet.
(5) No one would begrudge him a happy ending at Lord's, or a final payday or two in the seasons ahead, whether it comes in Cardiff, Chittagong or Christchurch.
(6) Although a goalless draw at home was a less than inspiring way to clinch promotion, it is hard to begrudge Cardiff their place in the Premier League.
(7) Though they had a begrudging respect for the crew boss, they showed an overriding concern with exploitation.
(8) Statham doesn’t begrudge the latter: “They were my heroes growing up.
(9) Farage is easily most animated when discussing his Common Sense Tour of last year, an auto-parodic-sounding meet-and-greet odyssey around the country, but one of which he speaks so fondly that you can't begrudge him it.
(10) For Ukraine , Yarmolenko was a delight all evening, and while the team retreated a little in the second half, it’s hard to begrudge a little bit of symbolic cheer for them, as weightier matters continue to unfold at home.
(11) Labour has also presided over this ongoing obscenity, while occasionally hinting that they can perhaps wring some begrudged concessions from those elites.
(12) BT wouldn't believe me, so I begrudgingly paid and left for another provider."
(13) Nearly all of Trump’s Republican opponents have suggested they would support him if he were the nominee – albeit begrudgingly.
(14) I don’t begrudge people the money … but in the end there is a balance that has to be struck here and my preference will always be in favour of more jobs,” he said.
(15) It’s not a huge increase if the 60p-a-week figure is accurate and I don’t begrudge paying my share to improve services.
(16) She says: "Working at YouTube, it was kind of like when you're in a gym class and the instructor isn't doing the exercises along with you and you sort of begrudge them: 'You don't know how hard this is, bitch!'
(17) Benítez's own count is three European trophies in 10 seasons and perhaps now it is not just wishful thinking to imagine the people who have campaigned against him can at least begrudgingly appreciate the expertise of his work.
(18) The chancellor's begrudging acceptance of the principle after the 2009 G20 in Pittsburg has since withered away into general antipathy.
(19) He gave them begrudging respect: ‘Gotta say, man, good scam.’” More than 30 years on, the dynamics are such now it is not entirely easy to know how much respect will be evident when the two clubs, sixth and seventh in the Premier League, lock horns in the Europa League on Thursdayremembering better times and driven more by the fear of failure, perhaps, than real affection for the competition.
(20) No one begrudged them their glorious equaliser eight minutes from time as Danny Drinkwater belted the ball into the corner of the net from 30 yards.
Grudge
Definition:
(v. t.) To look upon with desire to possess or to appropriate; to envy (one) the possession of; to begrudge; to covet; to give with reluctance; to desire to get back again; -- followed by the direct object only, or by both the direct and indirect objects.
(v. t.) To hold or harbor with malicioua disposition or purpose; to cherish enviously.
(v. i.) To be covetous or envious; to show discontent; to murmur; to complain; to repine; to be unwilling or reluctant.
(v. i.) To feel compunction or grief.
(n.) Sullen malice or malevolence; cherished malice, enmity, or dislike; ill will; an old cause of hatred or quarrel.
(n.) Slight symptom of disease.
Example Sentences:
(1) Trawling through the private telephone conversations of royals, politicians and celebrities in the hope of picking up scandalous gossip is not seen as legitimate news gathering and the techniques of entrapment which led to the recent Pakistani match-fixing scandal , although grudgingly admired in this particular case, are derided as manufacturing the news.
(2) Governor Phil Bryant only offered a grudging acceptance of the order, saying the court had overreached into states’ rights and was “certainly out of step with the majority of Mississippians”.
(3) The praise from supporters of other clubs and some commentators was grudging and qualified.
(4) Consider their peerless dead parrot sketch which, in many people's memories, ends when Cleese does his huge rant, and Palin grudgingly offers to replace the bird.
(5) On a personal level, no one could grudge Snodgrass his hat-trick in Malta after the kneecap injury that earlier disrupted his career and international journey.
(6) The doomsday scenario privately discussed at both party conferences so far was the grudging election of a largest party of whichever flavour, but without the majority or mandate to fight its way out of a paper bag.
(7) Lance Armstrong held the meanest grudges in cycling, in effect ruining the career of Christophe Bassons after the French rider dared to talk publicly about doping.
(8) It's a belated recognition of this verdict that has spurred a new debate on the centre-right, with pragmatists from influential skills minister Matthew Hancock to key players at the Daily Telegraph moving beyond grudging acceptance of the existence of the minimum wage to making a more full-throated case for strengthening it.
(9) I feel that if this doesn't happen this situation will lead to discord and grudge."
(10) The view of most people I've talked to is that he's improved the paper and there is a grudging respect for what he's done among what I would call the literati of US journalism."
(11) Despite the irony of being an arch-scandaliser who found himself out-scandalised, Brenton doesn't bear a grudge.
(12) But infiltrators are not the only, or indeed the main problem; around three-quarters of the killings are prompted by personal grudges, the Nato-led mission to Afghanistan estimates.
(13) The other 200 or so Tory MPs who supported the prime minister did so grudgingly, Downing Street has been told.
(14) Female Tory MPs, struggling to be heard by sections of their party, speak with grudging admiration of Cooper's skill in sounding like someone who earns a relatively low wage and uses the night bus rather than a highly educated career politician.
(15) She is very bad in the afternoons, she says and tasks that bore her, like letter-writing and paperwork, are only grudgingly and belatedly attended to.
(16) While Mancunian hostilities resume at Old Trafford, and Roy Keane leads United against City, Haaland will be at home in his west Yorkshire village nursing a bad knee and an even worse grudge.
(17) There is no common thread, little evidence of infiltration and the majority of such attacks are the result of personal grudges.
(18) However gravely his voice, he is also thin-skinned and notorious for holding grudges , and I suspect that even his glad-handing of the Tea Party is merely in service of a larger goal: getting Liz elected.
(19) As a result, both governments could propose short-term reductions in pensions, unemployment benefit, wider welfare benefits and public sector wages as part of the package and get grudging acceptance.
(20) This condition had been grudgingly accepted by Yemen's official opposition parties, though the protesters on the streets, together with international human rights organisations, found it abhorrent.