The word 'grudging' is correct and completely usable in written English.
It is an adjective that is used to describe a feeling of reluctance or unwilling acceptance. For example, you might say, "I gave him a grudging apology for my mistake."
The council cannot say how many social-rental homes will be provided, but it is clear that whatever provision there is will be grudging.
When Alastair Cook, with calls for his head emerging in the media after going one-nil down in the series, pulled Mohammed Shami for the two that took him to fifty and England to 82-1, the crowd's reaction might have been muted, grudging, even aggressive.
The realism he has shown in recent dealings with the West is in line with his record as foreign minister after 1996: loud complaints about NATO's enlargement plans eventually gave way to grudging acceptance.
IN ITS Lexington column today The Economist gives grudging approval to Nancy Pelosi as a next speaker of the House.
Some countries, like Sweden and Germany, accept a lot of refugees, many others, including Britain, are grudging.
Mr Obama's politically compulsory declarations of America's exceptionalism have always struck me as rote, a little less than heartfelt, even a bit grudging.
Even California's nearly extinct Republicans express grudging admiration.Yet California is not cured; it has swapped acute problems for chronic ones.
And the Andean act runs out again in 2006.The preferences offered by the European Union expire next year, and are just as grudging.
Other Europeans may regard Germany with grudging admiration, but they see it less as an example to be copied than as a tiresome nag, forever blathering about fiscal probity.
Environmentalists also give the president grudging credit for making a start on another crying need: affording better protection to Indonesia's forests.Change you can believe inThe activists who helped propel Jokowi to power, however, hoped for much more than an honest president with some good policies.
Their reaction to the victory of the American and British forces is, so far, confused and grudging.
