(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.
Umbrage
Definition:
(n.) Shade; shadow; obscurity; hence, that which affords a shade, as a screen of trees or foliage.
(n.) Shadowy resemblance; shadow.
(n.) The feeling of being overshadowed; jealousy of another, as standing in one's light or way; hence, suspicion of injury or wrong; offense; resentment.
Example Sentences:
(1) On Thursday he also took umbrage at Vladimir Putin's New York Times op-ed criticising US militarism.
(2) The Tory minister took umbrage and in an open letter published on the PoliticsHome website , accused her of "backing the destruction of one of the most effective schemes we have for helping young people get into work".
(3) The senior Democrat on the intelligence committee, Adam Schiff of California, took umbrage at Trump’s implication that “the intelligence community is lying” and said Trump was not acting presidentially.
(4) Indeed, the outrage and umbrage – most of all, it seems, about Obama "cadence" – deflates as it is uttered.
(5) It is not clear if Morsi himself took umbrage or whether his entourage has given instructions to silence the satirist – or at least remind him of the line not to cross.
(6) WPP has also taken umbrage at the methodology which ISS has used, which benchmarks the company against FTSE 100 companies in the UK.
(7) Chris Evans does not take umbrage when I tell him he has movie-star anonymity.
(8) MSNBC's resident ranter and news commentator Keith Olbermann – who once described a Republican senator as "an irresponsible, homophobic, racist, reactionary, ex-nude model" – tweeted his umbrage at Stewart's intimation that he is unhelpfully hyperbolic, possibly before smashing his Blackberry underfoot.
(9) He takes umbrage, at this more than anything else I’ve asked.
(10) Well, celebrity is a word I take great umbrage with.
(11) On the basis of the present study and related previous ones, tumor inhibition appears to be due not to an umbrageous effect but rather to the induction of systemic physiological responses.
(12) Although the Obama administration defiantly vowed to continue its own bombing operations in Syria - and took umbrage at Russia’s insistence on Wednesday that the US ground its aircraft – the US military revealed on Thursday that it launched only a single airstrike in the wake of the Russian campaign.
(13) 12.44pm BST An email, from Claire McConnell: "I know you didn’t write that phrase, and that the MLS is no example of quality football, but as a resident of Toronto, a great city, I have to take umbrage at the “boondocks” word."
(14) Intelligence professionals take great pride in their work … But when there is baseless criticism and impugning the integrity and the mission of intelligence officers, yeah – they take umbrage at that and will continue to do so and I will certainly do,” Brennan said.
(15) But after 40 years, staff and freelance, memories crowd in and old umbrages flower lie mutant cacti.
(16) Wawrinka took umbrage with Lopez's chuntering during the third set and asked the umpire to tell him to stop, which led to much finger-pointing at the net after the match.
(17) It tweeted a picture of one effigy rolling past its offices: “A sneak preview of Alex Salmond and Nessie ahead of tonight’s bonfire in Lewes – it just rolled up at County Hall.” As Scottish independence campaigners took mild umbrage on Twitter, the council quickly deleted the tweet and denied responsibility .
(18) One strain of reaction to Feinstein’s sudden umbrage at what she characterized as the invasiveness and unruliness of CIA practices is, Why is it OK when it’s done to the public, but not OK when it’s done to Senate staffers?
(19) The leader of the Green party, Cem Özdemir, who took part in the counter-protest, told the Guardian: “Being in a party whose members took part in the 1989 Monday demos, I take great umbrage at the abuse of the slogan used back then, ‘Wir sind das Volk’.
(20) The UK’s largest mobile phone company has taken umbrage at 3’s latest adverts, in particular one strapline where it claims it is the “undisputed” leader.