Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not grudging; freely giving; liberal; hearty.
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- adjective Lacking
envy orreluctance
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective without envy or reluctance
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Examples
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Beauty in others he observed with a particular, ungrudging delight, having always felt himself to be the plainest and most insignificant of mortals.
His Disposition 2010
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A woman of her word, ungrudging, to her first allegiance, she would be as good as her word now to this new attachment.
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Dougal's deep-set eyes covered me slowly from head to foot and returned to my face with a completely ungrudging nod of acknowledgment.
Sick Cycle Carousel 2010
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He swore like Reginald Bell and with good reason because he also had reason to give his ungrudging admiration to the Galactic Traders 'security system.
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But in order to appear ungrudging, he is sometimes hyperbolic, and therefore unconvincing: Is it really apt to write of Camus that “the Gods poured success on him but it could only darken his trench coat: it never soaked him to the skin”?
The Omnivore 2007
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But in order to appear ungrudging, he is sometimes hyperbolic, and therefore unconvincing: Is it really apt to write of Camus that “the Gods poured success on him but it could only darken his trench coat: it never soaked him to the skin”?
The Omnivore 2007
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But, if thou wilt of my fortune somewhat take for the children or thyself to help thy exile, say on; for I am ready to grant it with ungrudging hand, yea and to bend tokens to my friends elsewhere who shall treat thee well.
Medea 2008
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But, if thou wilt of my fortune somewhat take for the children or thyself to help thy exile, say on; for I am ready to grant it with ungrudging hand, yea and to bend tokens to my friends elsewhere who shall treat thee well.
Medea 2008
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Now I with thoughtful mind awoke from my slumber, and with ungrudging hand did measure out the horses 'feed, expecting to harness them at dawn unto the fray; when lo! through the thick gloom two men I see roaming around our army.
Rhesus 2008
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Now I with thoughtful mind awoke from my slumber, and with ungrudging hand did measure out the horses 'feed, expecting to harness them at dawn unto the fray; when lo! through the thick gloom two men I see roaming around our army.
Rhesus 2008
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