Begrudger vs Begrudgery - What's the difference?
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One who begrudges.
* {{quote-news, year=2008, date=June 8, author=Maureen Dowd, title=Watch Out, Meryl Streep! She’s a Master Thespian., work=New York Times
, passage=She still doesn’t believe Obama can win, but she knows she can move ahead only as a beguiler, not a begrudger . }} (Ireland) resentment or envy of the success of a peer; criticism of ostentatious display of success.
*1978 Gerard Quinn, "Ireland and the European Monetary System" in Studies Vol.67 p.275:
*:a certain sense of resentment at economically successful countries (what the Irish themselves call their national vice of begrudgery )
*1998 Nina Witoszek, Patrick F. Sheeran, "The Tradition of Vernacular Hatred" in Talking to the Dead: A Study of Irish Funerary Traditions (Costerus New Series, Vol.117, p.114):
*:Joseph Lee's Ireland 1912-1985 seems to confirm the intuition of the writers in presenting an Ireland in which an alarming political and economic retardation was linked to begrudgery , "a deadly alloy of envy, jealousy and spite".
*2004 John Waters The politburo has decided that you are unwell p.283:
*:If proof were needed that begrudgery was dead, we need look no further than the existence of VIP magazine.
Begrudgery is a related term of begrudger.
As nouns the difference between begrudger and begrudgery
is that begrudger is one who begrudges while begrudgery is resentment or envy of the success of a peer; criticism of ostentatious display of success.begrudger
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