Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Not grudging; freely giving; liberal; hearty.

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  • adjective Lacking envy or reluctance

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  • adjective without envy or reluctance

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Examples

  • 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

  • A woman of her word, ungrudging, to her first allegiance, she would be as good as her word now to this new attachment.

    A Caregiver's Homage To The Very Old 2010

  • 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

  • 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.

    Pigeons Having Sex On An Air Conditioner In New York 2010

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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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