grudging

Oliver was grudging about accepting Wickham's innocence.

She was very grudging in her thanks.

He felt a grudging respect for her talents as an organizer.

loathe, pertinacious, impenitent, refractory, obstinate, grudging, obdurate, mutinous, recalcitrant.

Will the adjective this time be grudging or admiring, cynical or affirmative, upwardly mythopoeic or downwardly Mammonite?

Virulently opposed by most of the continent's media, Chávez receives the grudging respect of most of the region's governments.

After a pause he added 'sir' in a dilatory, grudging way.

" As you say, Khaleesi" . Ser Jorah's voice was grudging.

He gave the rope another wrench. Buckbeak broke into a grudging trot.

“He was born to be prime minister, ”even grudging admirers say.”Voters agree.

" So she is" . His tone was grudging. " Let me think on it" .

Well, she may be ugly but she's not entirely stupid. Jaime gave her a grudging smile.

I'd given one man and thought it too much, while he gave four without grudging them.

Some countries, like Sweden and Germany, accept a lot of refugees, many others, including Britain, are grudging.

The queen considered her prize, unflinching. " You've killed the wrong dwarf, " she said at last, grudging every word.

Being poor white, they were not even accorded the grudging respect that Angus MacIntosh's dour independence wrung from neighboring families.