How to Use grudging in a Sentence

grudging

adjective

• He has earned the grudging admiration of his rivals.
• Her theories have begun to win grudging acceptance in the scientific community.
• The can’t-stand-the-other-guy vote, the grudging hold-your nose-vote, is one way that democracies are supposed to work.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 25 Apr. 2022
• Above all, the memorial has the feel of a grudging concession.
  — Alexander Nazaryan, Newsweek, 15 Apr. 2015
• In the midst of mid-tour press, bands often talk about the road with a grudging respect, a necessary evil of living the dream.
  — Dylan Owens, The Know, 6 Apr. 2017
• But Villanueva was not of a mind to accept even such grudging praise.
  — Los Angeles Times, 30 Mar. 2022
• The first: the persistence of inflation, and the grudging acceptance of it.
  — Quartz, 15 Nov. 2022
• And locals will say that in a grudging way, so as not to unduly raise people's hopes.
  — Lawrence Specker, AL.com, 22 May 2017
• Both of those outlays were made within months of Trump’s grudging departure from the White House.
  — David Owen, The New Yorker, 15 June 2022
• So the narrative is Elvis appealing to the host, to earn his grudging approval.
  — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 9 Feb. 2024
• Of the sons, only Kayce, the one who left (and who at some point became a war hero) has earned his father’s grudging respect, and Kayce wants no part of it.
  — Ellen Gray, Philly.com, 15 June 2018
• The stance has earned praise from pro-Israel groups in the United States and even the grudging respect of some conservatives.
  — Annie Karni, New York Times, 26 May 2024
• The two also have a grudging but mutual respect for each other and have learned how to keep their fights fair.
  — Kevyn Burger Special To The Star Tribune, Star Tribune, 22 Jan. 2021
• Who will bear the agony of being a grudging final selection?
  — Robin Givhan, Washington Post, 16 Apr. 2024
• On the right, there is a different kind of grudging admiration for the Beijing way.
  — Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 21 Aug. 2019
• Critics, watching Curry battle the Mighty James to at least a draw, gave grudging respect.
  — Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 June 2018
• Now, there’s an acceptance – grudging or otherwise – that the game will never be the same, for better or worse.
  — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 13 Nov. 2020
• The narrative unfolds like an episode of The Wire but without the comic relief - or that show's grudging empathy for the cops.
  — Paul Butler, Philly.com, 5 Nov. 2017
• Covington is getting little in the way of similar grudging props in the wake of his big defeat.
  — Dave Doyle, MMA Junkie, 15 Dec. 2019
• This should earn him at least some grudging respect from most media folk but probably won’t.
  — James Freeman, WSJ, 1 June 2018
• But the tone in North Korea’s media has remained suspicious and grudging.
  — Mark Landler, BostonGlobe.com, 22 May 2018
• This grudging regard was evident last month, when Dugdale died in a Dublin nursing home at age 82.
  — Theresa McKinney, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Apr. 2024
• After a moment, both raised their hands, a grudging show of support for their President and rival.
  — Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 24 Aug. 2023
• Thirty-seven hundred dollars was more like a grudging acceptance that the men worked at all.
  — Michael Scott Moore, The New Yorker, 25 May 2022
• Grifters, for all our grudging admiration, rarely come to happy ends.
  — Ligaya Mishan, New York Times, 12 Sep. 2019
• Among the film’s most piercing scenes are a couple of doozies set in the local watering hole, where Leslie gravitates to slake her thirst and to escape the judgment of her grudging hosts.
  — Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Mar. 2022
• Yet there is one anthropologist who has grudging respect for the film.
  — Daniel Immerwahr, The New Republic, 24 Mar. 2021
• Still worse, Coes' graceless prose is worthy of a grudging C- in a college freshman writing class.
  — Bruce Desilva, Dallas News, 30 July 2019
• Call it grudging acceptance or feigned optimism on Capitol Hill.
  — Alexis Simendinger, The Hill, 10 July 2024
• The critical mission must be to identify which pick for running mate would create fervor — not just mild approval or grudging acceptance.
  — Michael Cozzillio, Baltimore Sun, 31 July 2024

Last Updated: 5 Dec 2024