0 past simple and past participle of begrudge
1 to feel unhappy because someone has something that you think they do not deserve:
A little money spent judiciously on educating those children should not be begrudged.
At any rate, those costs would not be begrudged by the animal lover.
Grabbing a begrudged compromise here; clutching an opt-out clause there.
The sum that was made available was only £5,000, but it was not to be begrudged.
I am sure that this heavy and increasing charge will not be begrudged.
Parliament left the reporting of its proceedings as late as 1878 because it begrudged the expenditure.
The original partners have never for a moment begrudged him these disproportionate profits because they recognise that his small contribution saved them at a time of great need.
Though he begrudged the practice of law, he had friends and relatives in the legal profession, whom he aided infrequently when his assistance was requested.
