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Penurious vs Grudging - What's the difference?

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As adjectives the difference between penurious and grudging

is that penurious is miserly; excessively cheap while grudging is unwilling or with reluctance.

As a verb grudging is

present participle of lang=en.

As a noun grudging is

the state of bearing a grudge.

penurious

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Miserly; excessively cheap.
    • The old man died a penurious wretch; eighty-thousand dollars in the mattress and as many holes in the roof.
  • Not bountiful; thin; scant.
    • The penurious stew would have been more accurately labelled broth.
  • Impoverished; wanting for money.
    • The poor penurious horde, naught in the cooking pot and naught in the belly.

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    * penury

    grudging

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Unwilling or with reluctance.
    • her grudging acceptance that her rival deserved the award

    Derived terms

    * grudgingly

    Related terms

    * grudge * grudger

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The state of bearing a grudge.
  • * 1806 , Matthew Henry, An Exposition of All the Books of the Old and New Testaments
    • Fretfulness and discontent expose us to the just judgment of God; and we bring more calamities upon ourselves, by our murmuring, distrustful, envious groans and grudgings against one another, than we are aware of

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