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• v  bear a grudge; harbor ill feelings
• v  accept or admit unwillingly
• s  of especially an attitude
  gave grudging consent
  grudging acceptance of his opponent's victory
• s  petty or reluctant in giving or spending

• Even among comic-makers the term only gets grudging usage, mostly because any alternative would be even less recognized.
• Even the staunchest Beatles fans have accorded her grudging respect for her fierce guardianship of Lennon's memory.
• I must also confess to a grudging respect for Gaines, who did more than package the stories Feldstein wrote.

• stew
• grudge
• niggardly
• scrimy

News & Articles

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• Mexico vs. Puerto Rico burns hot
  Ultimately, the bad blood is born of healthy competition and grudging respect
  June 12, 2013 - ESPN
• Vietnam prime minister warned in confidence vote
  Vietnamese lawmakers handed the prime minister a grudging mandate in the country's first ever confidence vote, a ballot seen as a small step toward a more pluralistic style of governance in the one-party, ...
  June 11, 2013 - Associated Press via Yahoo! News
• Vietnam's prime minister survives confidence vote, but with weakened position
  HANOI, Vietnam †Vietnamese lawmakers handed the prime minister a grudging mandate in the country's first ever confidence vote, a ballot seen as a small step toward a more pluralistic style of governance in the one-party, Communist nation.
  June 11, 2013 - Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune

Quotes

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• Adam Schiff in Guardian Unlimited
  Schiff said some of his House colleagues "aren't enthusiastic about the change. But I think there's a grudging recognition that the institution has a real credibility problem."
• Dan Quayle in San Diego Union Tribune
  I have a lot of grudging respect for what he did because he beat the Clintons, something we couldn't do in 1992,said Quayle, a former GOP senator from Indiana who served under President George HW Bush from 1988-92. "The Clintons were very...
• Pierre Trudeau in CTV.ca
  This to me was a fantastically new statement in the mouth of the president of the United States, and it was said with utmost simplicity and not at all in a grudging way,Trudeau told a news conference.