Can Grudging Be an Adjective?

Can Grudging Be an Adjective?

GRUDGING (adjective) definition and synonyms | Macmillan Dictionary.

Does grudging mean complaining?

English speakers had adopted the "complain" sense of grudge by the late 13th century, and a century later they had added the extended sense "to give reluctantly." That second sense may have developed because people associated grudge with the related word begrudge (meaning "to give reluctantly," as in "I begrudged him a ...

What is the adjective of grudge?

grudging. Unwilling or with reluctance.

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