Begrudgingly definitions and example sentences on Wordnik

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However, and this is what I want to address at some length in this podcast, even among the nearly 6 in 10 Americans in the Gallup poll who would provide a path to citizenship, there are too many who do so begrudgingly -- as if they were being so magnanimous -- with the attitude

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L. Rev. 1105, 1110 (1990): “Fair use should not be considered a bizarre, occasionally tolerated departure from the grand conception of the copyright design.”To me that is the key: fair use is a part of the design of copyright, it is not an exception to it, and it is not to be applied begrudgingly or narrowly, but liberally.
He smiled begrudgingly, pleased by the compliment. — EQMM, May 2005
I get up this morning, begrudgingly, so I can be up and dressed (in one of my two outfits, it's the green sweatshirt and yoga pants today) for the construction workers. — Life In Color
He (begrudgingly) let a towel stand in for Blankie, although she was the first thing he asked for when he woke up. — Snapshot
It diligently analyzed Hungarian law and court proceedings and concluded that available remedies both in A. T.'s case and in general were too weak, too slow, and too begrudgingly implemented. — RHRealityCheck.org