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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
begrudge .
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Examples
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I begrudged the very hours of blessed sleep because by that much was I robbed of the joy that would have been mine had I remained awake.
Chapter 31 2010
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A very proud Haitian-American (who doesn't shun the begrudged diaspora label), self-identified black feminist, trained anthropologist but accidental academic (long story), performance and multi-media artist who doesn't fully belong in any one community, I am quite used to resisting other people's attempt and need to socially incarcerate me.
Gina Athena Ulysse: Teaching Black Feminism and Paying it Forward Gina Athena Ulysse 2010
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After aligning his Pulitzer-winning novel The Hours to Mrs Dalloway and Virginia Woolf, Cunningham makes a mistake in linking By Nightfall to Joyce, continues Mars-Jones: "If he had chosen softer models he would cut a better figure, the contrast being smaller … Joyce would have begrudged By Nightfall the rationed reading time failing eyes he gave so willingly to Gentlemen Prefer Blondes".
Review of The Hours author's latest book wins inaugural hatchet job award 2012
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I have never, not once, looked at one of my peers and begrudged them their success.
Who needs siblings? 2011
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Not that anybody begrudged a surgeon that money - especially when bankers were taking home bonuses of £2,000,000 and splashing out on new penthouse flats in Chelsea or the Docklands.
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Just to say .... no one should begrudge POTUS getting his shot first, just as they should not have begrudged Cheny his vacationation. we need them at the job and healthy. it was just a silly remark he made. he's from Chicago and an attorney.
Obama: Family 'will stand in line like everybody else' for vaccine 2009
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I'm an elementary school teacher and broke my foot and nobody begrudged me for taking a few days off (since I couldn't even walk to the bathroom and had to crawl the first couple of days).
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But when asked whether they begrudged Sarah Palin her reported $100,000 speaking fee, they blanched.
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In 2002 he scored 193 for India at Headingley as England were demolished by an innings to give the Yorkshire public the century they had craved 10 years earlier – and no Tyke begrudged him.
Sachin Tendulkar's Yorkshire roots helped make him a master of modesty 2011
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Apollinaire said to Bo, We are all a little envious; even the most insignificant marks of favour are begrudged.
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