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grudging
adjective as in covetous
adjective as in dissatisfied
Strongest match
Strong matches
adjective as in envious
adjective as in forced
adjective as in grabby
adjective as in greedy
Weak matches
- acquisitive
- avaricious
- avid
- carnivorous
- close
- close-fisted
- covetous
- craving
- desirous
- devouring
- edacious
- esurient
- gluttonous
- gobbling
- gormandizing
- grabby
- grasping
- gulping
- guzzling
- hoggish
- insatiable
- insatiate
- intemperate
- itchy
- miserly
- omnivorous
- parsimonious
- penny-pinching
- penurious
- piggish
- prehensile
- ravening
- ravenous
- stingy
- swinish
- tight
- tight-fisted
- voracious
adjective as in hard-fisted
adjective as in hoggish
adjective as in involuntary
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adjective as in jaundiced
adjective as in jealous
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adjective as in piggish
Weak matches
- acquisitive
- avaricious
- avid
- carnivorous
- close
- close-fisted
- covetous
- craving
- desirous
- devouring
- eager
- edacious
- esurient
- gluttonous
- gobbling
- gormandizing
- grabby
- grasping
- gulping
- guzzling
- hoggish
- hungry
- impatient
- insatiable
- insatiate
- intemperate
- itchy
- miserly
- omnivorous
- parsimonious
- pennypinching
- penurious
- prehensile
- rapacious
- ravening
- ravenous
- selfish
- stingy
- swinish
- tight
- tight-fisted
- voracious
adjective as in pinching
Weak matches
adjective as in rancorous
Strongest matches
adjective as in reluctant
adjective as in small
adjective as in sour
adjective as in stingy
Strong match
adjective as in unfriendly
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Weak matches
- acrimonious
- against
- alien
- aloof
- antisocial
- censorious
- cold
- competitive
- conflicting
- contrary
- disaffected
- disagreeable
- distant
- grouchy
- gruff
- ill-disposed
- inauspicious
- inimical
- malicious
- malignant
- misanthropic
- not on speaking terms
- opposed
- opposite
- quarrelsome
- sour
- spiteful
- surly
- uncharitable
- uncongenial
- unneighborly
- unpropitious
- unsociable
- vengeful
- warlike
adjective as in ungenerous
adjective as in unwilling
adjective as in vindictive
noun as in envy
noun as in meanness
Example Sentences
There were even the requisite quotes from political opponents offering grudging respect.
But there was a sense, a grudging willingness among these Labour voters to give Sir Keir and the government more time.
I had been making predictable salads — kale, romaine, a grudging nod to cabbage — and the book, which catalogs more than forty varieties of greens, seemed like the sort of thing that might inspire transformation.
They butt heads, but, wild guess, they’ll come to form a grudging mutual respect.
While compliance with court orders has at times been grudging, the President and Congress have consistently respected Marbury in the end because it is part of the glue that holds the Constitution together.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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