grudgingly

CEFRC2

/ɡrˈʌdʒɪŋli/

adverb

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I was left to play my part, grudgingly, in the eternal jugalbandi of tourist life: ‘Boat, sir?’ ‘No, thank you.’ ‘Rickshaw, sir?’ ‘No, thank you.’
"This is just a cover story," Clay says to O5-8, not taking his eyes off Marion. "It's a good one, but she's had it worked out in advance." "Clay, lose the piece," says the O5. Grudgingly, Clay does so.

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"This is just a cover story," Clay says to O5-8, not taking his eyes off Marion. "It's a good one, but she's had it worked out in advance." "Clay, lose the piece," says the O5. Grudgingly, Clay does so.
2008–2021, qntm, “We Need To Talk About Fifty-Five”, in There Is No Antimemetics Division, →ISBN, page 9
I was left to play my part, grudgingly, in the eternal jugalbandi of tourist life: ‘Boat, sir?’ ‘No, thank you.’ ‘Rickshaw, sir?’ ‘No, thank you.’
2009, Geoff Dyer, Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi, Canongate, published 2015, page 226
Online and over Shabbat dinners, arguments about the election have grown bitter. Those grudgingly planning to vote for Labour have been called traitors to the community and self-hating Jews. Anti-Corbyn die-hards, on the other hand, have been branded the handmaidens of a hard Brexit.
2019 November 21, Benjamin Mueller, “At Odds With Labour, Britain's Jews Are Feeling Politically Homeless”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 13 Nov 2023

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From grudging + -ly.