grudgingness
Unwilling, bitter compliance
Grudgingness is the quality of giving or doing something unwillingly, with visible reluctance.
It suggests resentment barely concealed: The grudgingness of his apology made it worse than silence.
The word captures not just reluctance but the failure to hide it—a gift given with grudgingness feels like no gift at all.
Sharp, unpleasant taste or feeling
- rancorLasting bitter resentment
- ill-willHostile or unkind feeling
- spitePetty malicious intent
- animosityActive, bitter hostility
hostility · discontent · displeasure · sullenness · disgruntlement · pique · umbrage · indignation
Disinclination to act
- hesitationDelay from uncertainty
- disinclinationLack of desire
- resistanceCapacity to withstand force
- foot-draggingDeliberate slowness or resistance
stalling · wavering · reticence · halfheartedness · niggardliness · stinginess · parsimony · tightfistedness
bitterness
Sharp, unpleasant taste or feeling
animosity · hostility · discontent · displeasure · sullenness · disgruntlement · pique · umbrage · indignation · vexation
unwillingness
Disinclination to act
- hesitationDelay from uncertainty
- disinclinationLack of desire
- resistanceCapacity to withstand force
foot-dragging · stalling · wavering · reticence · halfheartedness · niggardliness · stinginess · parsimony · tightfistedness · meanness
grudgingnessgenerosity
Readiness to give freely
eagerness · willingness · liberality · open-handedness · munificence
grouchy, grudge, grouch, grudging, begrudge, begrudging, grudges, grudgingly, grudged