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"felt a grudge" is a correct and commonly used phrase in written English.
It means to have or hold a strong feeling of resentment or bitterness towards someone or something. Example: After Jack was promoted over her, Susan couldn't help but feel a grudge towards him.
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Ask yourself, "Why do I get that feeling?" Sometimes I'll go to a person I'm holding a grudge against and I'll say, "I've always felt a grudge and I don't have it any more". And that's that.
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Also, we won't feel a grudge about it.
It can be those who have been unkind to you or those you a feel a grudge against.
Unlike "Downton Abbey," whose nods to modernity always felt a little grudging, this is not an elegy, an exercise in nostalgia; Morgan looks a little askance at the forms and the institutions and with more than a little sympathy at the titled mortals who follow them.
McInerney is, famously, a wine collector himself and his enthusiasm for his billionaire chums on the scene is so artless, it feels a little grudging to hold it against him.
At first I had difficulty working out the logic of the setting: why, in particular, should Patrick Stewart's multi-millionaire property-owning, semi-assimilated Shylock feel an "ancient grudge" towards the local Christians?
Rousey excels at making each match feel like a grudge match, even if her only grudge is with the recalcitrant fans who still won't cheer for her.
"This is not our way; and, besides, the moment that a man is suspected of giving advice, however good, from corrupt motives, we feel such a grudge against him for the gain which after all we are not certain he will receive, that we deprive the city of its certain benefit.
SDLP leader Alasdair McDonnell said he felt a sense of personal loss and described Mr Conlon as a "larger than life character" who "bore no grudges".
And this minister was no Tomas: he was clear and confident, he knew he had that answer, and I'd begun to feel a sense of grudging assent — not surrender but the first stirrings — when that picture appeared.
And this minister was no Tomas: he was clear and confident, he knew he had that answer, and I'd begun to feel a sense of grudging assent not surrender but the first stirrings when that picture appeared.
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