grudging

adj

1. Unwilling or with reluctance.

   “her grudging acceptance that her rival deserved the award”

   “A terse account, with no further explanation or detail, an indication perhaps of a grudging heart behind the offering.”

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of grudge

noun

1. The state of bearing a grudge.

   “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 […]”