grudge

She doesn’t seem to hold a grudge over her boyfriend’s omission, though.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

It was typical of the star's ability to radiate cheery goodwill that she never held a grudge against Wagoner, always crediting him with giving her a crucial career break, even after their relationship fell apart.

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026

Frederick T. Greene, a Journal subscriber since 1983, suggested that college basketball was the true home of the world’s leading grudge match.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026

The U.S. doesn’t hold a grudge against those who renounce citizenship.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 17, 2026

Perhaps somebody had a grudge against Mother Paula and her world-famous pancakes.

From "Hoot" by Carl Hiaasen

He said he found it a little “odd” and “extreme,” but didn’t think she held grudges, necessarily.

From Slate ● Jun. 16, 2026

In her 2019 memoir, “Where the Light Enters,” Jill contrasts Joe’s capacity for forgiveness with her proclivity toward grudges, how she recalls “every slight committed against the people I love.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 2, 2026

The Olympics that preached harmony finally united in a single city known for love, beauty and grudges.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 22, 2026

He told the BBC's Radio Scotland Breakfast programme: "These are both individuals who have strong and clear opinions, but who do not bear grudges."

From BBC ● Feb. 10, 2026

Friends of both races now held grudges against each other.

From "The Freedom Writers Diary" by The Freedom Writers

Already during a visit to United States in 1906, he voiced his esteem for Black Americans struggling to live dignified lives within “a civilization they are grudged and denied.”

From Washington Post ● Nov. 2, 2021

“There will be some grudging specifics about medical personnel in attendance,” grudged Jan Moir in the Daily Mail, “bouncing baby weight and the actual date of birth – then the shutters will slam down.”

From The Guardian ● Apr. 18, 2019

Yet on the balance of play, few could have grudged St Mirren a replay; they harried and hassled Celtic, with Lee Mair passing up a glorious stoppage time chance to claim a draw.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 2, 2013

No one grudged him the position for Dr. Howell, 69, director of Johns Hopkins school of hygiene and public health, has been eminent in U. S. physiology for more than a generation.

From Time Magazine Archive

But most of all, she grudged them the comfort they drew from each other.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy

It’s a connection, a Gazan journalist said, that Witkoff also made with Hamas leaders, being in the unlucky “club of parents who have lost children,” and, this person said, it won him their grudging respect.

From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2026

The strikes have drawn grudging recognition from Russian military analysts.

From Barron's ● Jun. 10, 2026

By the end of World War II, Churchill would admit a grudging respect for Eisenhower.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026

But there was a sense, a grudging willingness among these Labour voters to give Sir Keir and the government more time.

From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2025

His condemnation was severe and wide-ranging, while his praise seemed like a grudging afterthought: Hundreds of blacks had come to their white neighbors’ aid, so why not say so?

From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy