What's the difference between drudging and grudging?
Drudging
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Drudge
Example Sentences:
(1) When I first read her at the age of 13, I thought she was another boring Gothic drudge who got lucky.
(2) Weeks after Rove’s comments, a former Drudge Report editor, Joseph Curl, published a column at the Washington Times demanding Clinton’s health records be made public.
(3) While drudging away in a dry cleaners, Tommo has a brainwave: by half-inching various outfits, he can test-drive possible vocations while also charming the ladies.
(4) The 40-minute video – released in a carefully choreographed operation between Daily Caller editor-in-chief Tucker Carlson, Fox News host Sean Hannity and Drudge Report founder Matt Drudge – was shot in Virginia in June 2007 as Obama was campaigning for the Democratic presidential nomination.
(5) If you didn't like the focus on birds and beer, you were easily classed as a frump and a drudge.
(6) The ribbing was all the more caustic given Drudge's status as the Clintons' historic bête noire – it was the Drudge Report that broke the Monica Lewinsky story in 1998.
(7) MATT DRUDGE (@DRUDGE) Curious tape dropping tonight.
(8) Romney refers multiple times – three or four in an appearance that lasted as many minutes – to the current top story on the Drudge report, about an audio tape from 1998 in which Barack Obama says he favors some redistribution of wealth.
(9) That hasn’t stopped conservative websites like the Drudge Report from declaring “IT BEGINS” or Breitbart News from blaring From ‘Dead Broke’ to $$$,$$$,$$$: Clinton Cash ‘Most Anticipated and Feared Book of Presidential Cycle’.
(10) It is intuitively obvious that the longer you are expected to drudge, the less productive your drudgery is likely to be.
(11) The Drudge Report published what appeared to be an outline of Ailes’s potential exit package, which included a $40m payoff.
(12) Carlson's view, which has been echoed now by Drudge, and much of the Fox line-up , is that this dangerously, insidiously, and rudely sets black Americans against white Americans.
(13) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Pinterest close 3.05pm BST To begin with a sideshow: if you haven't been following the pitiful exertions of Matt Drudge and Tucker Carlson to resurrect the Jeremiah Wright controversy, we applaud and admire you.
(14) The drudge of interplanetary travel has emerged from research on six men who joined the longest simulated space mission ever : a 17-month round trip to the red planet in a pretend spaceship housed at a Moscow industrial estate.
(15) As does Drudge's willingness to troll his base follower-ship.
(16) Why drudge up abuse allegations several decades later?
(17) The Drudge Report, a powerful news aggregator popular with conservatives, linked to the Yucatan Times article with some commenters hailed the tourists for avenging alleged Mexican loutishness in the US.
(18) Matt Drudge mischievously wondered in a tweet whether the People magazine cover shows her holding a walking frame (she is in fact leaning on a patio chair) – a play on the fact that she would be 69 at her inauguration, were she to run and win in 2016.
(19) The fact that the poll was created by and appeared on the homepage of drudgereport.com means it was probably more of a representation of Drudge readers than the country as a whole.
(20) By denying ourselves access to our own inner worlds, we are stopping up the well of our imagination, that which raises us above the drudge and grind of mere survival, that which makes us human.
Grudging
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Grudge
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.