grudges
Long-held bitter feelings
Grudges are persistent feelings of resentment toward someone for a past offense.
To hold a grudge is to nurse that resentment rather than let it go: She's still holding a grudge about what happened at the wedding.
Some people bear grudges for years.
A grudge match is a contest between longtime rivals with scores to settle.
Lasting bitter resentment
- grievanceFormal claim of unfairness
- bitternessSharp, unpleasant taste or feeling
- umbrageOffense taken at insult
- indignationAnger from mistreatment
spite · malice · acrimony · animosity · antipathy · enmity · ill-will · disgruntlement
Prolonged retaliatory conflict
- retributionPunishment for wrongdoing
- paybackRetaliation for wrongs
- retaliationPunitive response to injury
- vengeanceRetaliation for injury
vindictiveness · feud · score-settling · reprisal · avenge · nemesis · comeuppance · requital
Bitter ongoing rivalry
- quarrelAngry verbal dispute
- rivalryOngoing contest between opponents
- estrangementEmotional separation between people
- falling-outSerious dispute ending relations
alienation · tension · strife · antagonism · hostility · rift · schism · standoff
Gave protective concealment
- nursedFed from the breast
- long-heldMaintained over extended time
- deep-seatedFirmly established within
- oldExisting many years
lingering · remembered · unresolved · lasting · persistent · buried · dormant · rekindled
Restoration of friendly relations
- absolutionFormal clearing of guilt
- clemencyMerciful treatment of offenders
- pardonOfficial release from punishment
- mercyCompassion toward offenders
olive-branch · release · forbearance · grace · healing · closure
rancor
Lasting bitter resentment
- grievanceFormal claim of unfairness
- bitternessSharp, unpleasant taste or feeling
- umbrageOffense taken at insult
indignation · spite · malice · acrimony · animosity · antipathy · enmity · ill-will · disgruntlement · pique
vendetta
Prolonged retaliatory conflict
- retributionPunishment for wrongdoing
- paybackRetaliation for wrongs
- retaliationPunitive response to injury
vengeance · vindictiveness · feud · score-settling · reprisal · avenge · nemesis · comeuppance · requital
feud
Bitter ongoing rivalry
- quarrelAngry verbal dispute
- rivalryOngoing contest between opponents
- estrangementEmotional separation between people
falling-out · alienation · tension · strife · antagonism · hostility · rift · schism · standoff
harbored
Gave protective concealment
- nursedFed from the breast
- long-heldMaintained over extended time
- deep-seatedFirmly established within
old · lingering · remembered · unresolved · lasting · persistent · buried · dormant · rekindled · unforgotten
reconciliation
Restoration of friendly relations
- absolutionFormal clearing of guilt
- clemencyMerciful treatment of offenders
- pardonOfficial release from punishment
mercy · olive-branch · release · forbearance · grace · healing · closure
- tensionsstrain, friction, hostility, discord, strife
- malicemalice, ill will, spite, malevolence, malignity
- neighbor disputesfence disputes, property lines, noise complaints, barking dogs, loud music
- vicesgreed, envy, lust, gluttony, vanity
- conflictsargument, fight, war, battle, dispute
- passive aggressionsilent treatment, backhanded compliments, backhanded compliment, cold shoulder, eye rolling
grudgesforgiveness
Releasing resentment toward offenders
pardon · absolution · letting go · mercy · reconciliation
grudgesharmony
Agreement or musical blend
peace · goodwill · amicability · friendliness · congeniality
- hold a grudgeMaintain lasting resentment
- bear a grudgeMaintain lasting ill will
- grudge matchContest to settle scores
- grudge matchesCompetitions between longtime rivals
- old grudge
- grudge holderOne nursing old resentments
grudge, grudging, grudgingly, grudged, ungrudging, grudgeful, ungrudgingly