grudgingly accept
Frequency: 4.53.8 per million words
To accept something in a reluctant or resentful way.
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- After a long argument, he grudgingly accepted his defeat.
- After a long debate, he grudgingly accepted the committee's decision.
- The board grudgingly accepted the budget cuts proposed by the new CEO.
- She grudgingly accepts help from her colleagues, preferring to work alone.
- She finally had to grudgingly accept her parents' help with the rent.
- The team will have to grudgingly accept the budget cuts.
- The union will likely grudgingly accept the terms of the new contract to avoid a strike.
- I have grudgingly accepted the fact that I won't finish the project on time.
- He grudgingly accepted the apology, though it was clear he was still upset.
- They might grudgingly accept our offer if we add a small bonus.
- The opposition party has grudgingly accepted the election results.
- He ended up grudgingly accepting his defeat in the election.
- After weeks of denial, I had to grudgingly accept that the project had failed.
- To avoid further argument, she chose to grudgingly accept his apology.
- The employees seem to grudgingly accept the new open-office layout.
- The new terms of the contract were grudgingly accepted by the union.
- The artist grudgingly accepted the client's changes to his design.
- The child grudgingly accepted that it was bedtime.
- They had no choice but to grudgingly accept the compromise offered by the mediator.
- The company had to grudgingly accept the new environmental regulations.