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Recent Examples of begrudgingly
Also on deck is A Keller Christmas Vacation, which centers on a trio of siblings (played by Jonathan Bennett, Brandon Routh, and Eden Sher) touched by the holiday spirit after begrudgingly embarking on a cruise with their parents.
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Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 7 Dec. 2025
After Agnes becomes pregnant, however, the couple’s families begrudgingly bless their union, and the newlyweds march through an endless stream of suffering to get to the story’s hammer blow of a finale.
—David Sims, The Atlantic, 27 Nov. 2025
After Gen Z declared the middle part supreme, many of us (somewhat begrudgingly) fell in line.
—Karli Bendlin, PEOPLE, 24 Nov. 2025
Dismissing a case is a last resort resolution and is often done begrudgingly, Johnson said.
—Kirsten Fiscus, Nashville Tennessean, 20 Oct. 2025
When a health insurance company refuses to pay for treatment, most people begrudgingly accept the decision.
—Duaa Eldeib, ProPublica, 7 Oct. 2025
At first begrudgingly, other tribes — usually at odds with one another — join her in order to defeat a common enemy.
—Carlos Aguilar, Variety, 2 Oct. 2025
Or, begrudgingly, at least a god.
—David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 10 Sep. 2025
Jon Stewart, ever the happy employee in his running joke of begrudgingly working Monday nights at The Daily Show, ruefully acknowledged being back at his post after being on vacation for over a month.
—Natalie Oganesyan, Deadline, 8 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for begrudgingly
grudgingly
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In the course of ordinary events, a novelist expects, however grudgingly, to compete with rivals, even acolytes.—
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Just a truck and the ability to find people willing to pay to have done what most of us do – albeit grudgingly – on our own.—
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“Begrudgingly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/begrudgingly. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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