ungrudging admiration. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : an ungrudging supporter of charities. From Dictionary.com.
Guests were incessant and the hospitality ungrudging. From Wordnik.com. [Voltaire] Reference
I invoke for this reform the cheerful and ungrudging support of the. From Wordnik.com. [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference
A good worker, the boy Benet, cheerful and ungrudging, and good company. From Wordnik.com. [The Raven In The Foregate]
When satisfied that the object is worthy, his aid is generous and ungrudging. From Wordnik.com. [Cleveland Past and Present Its Representative Men] Reference
He has beggared himself for her long ago, ungrudging, and his garrison must eat. From Wordnik.com. [The Hermit of Eyton Forest]
And if the debt is not discharged by then, I'll pay the balance after, ungrudging. From Wordnik.com. [The Rose Rent]
Over the years, Edwards's courtroom opponents came to regard him with ungrudging awe. From Wordnik.com. [THE BOYISH WONDER] Reference
He made me feel their dismay and their ungrudging love for their thirty-five-inch son. From Wordnik.com. [The Space Merchants]
"She could always do everything better than I," cried Lorania, with ungrudging admiration. From Wordnik.com. [Different Girls] Reference
Yet since she had quickened, she had not had even a single day of ungrudging companionship. From Wordnik.com. [Ship Of Magic]
The man who foolishly does me wrong, I will return him the protection of my ungrudging love. From Wordnik.com. [The Essence of Buddhism] Reference
He had had what he wanted from her. ungrudging and unafraid; now she wanted something from him. From Wordnik.com. [The Potter's Field]
'Your father,' said Cadfael gravely, 'is always fair and ungrudging even to those who excel him.'. From Wordnik.com. [The Potter's Field]
The magnitude of his achievements deserves ungrudging admiration; nor is he yet at the end of his resources. From Wordnik.com. [Mater et Magistra] Reference
She had caught the contagion of the universal enthusiasm and had given him her first ungrudging token of approval. From Wordnik.com. [Initials Only] Reference
A woman of her word, ungrudging, to her first allegiance, she would be as good as her word now to this new attachment. From Wordnik.com. [A Caregiver's Homage To The Very Old] Reference
There was something regal, but not haughty, about the gesture, as if it was backed up by an ungrudging noblesse oblige. From Wordnik.com. [War for the Oaks]
It was the paramount duty of friendship to be an ungrudging listener, to remove one's ego as far as possible from the equation. From Wordnik.com. [Incubus]
In the finer work of Greek sculptors one finds an utterly ungrudging expenditure of time and care which reminds one of the working of. From Wordnik.com. [The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield] Reference
Dougal's deep-set eyes covered me slowly from head to foot and returned to my face with a completely ungrudging nod of acknowledgment. From Wordnik.com. [Sick Cycle Carousel] Reference
There was one quality which he possessed to which she paid ungrudging tribute; never had she met a man so free from all petty pretense. From Wordnik.com. [The Land of Promise] Reference
It was long before his ambassadors were respected, longer still before he received the ungrudging acknowledgment of his claims as Emperor. From Wordnik.com. [Heroes of Modern Europe] Reference
Collot looked up at his colleague in ungrudging admiration. From Wordnik.com. [The Elusive Pimpernel] Reference
Good Raffaello Cellini! his is another absolutely ungrudging and unselfish spirit. From Wordnik.com. [A Romance of Two Worlds] Reference
Unselfish, ungrudging lavishing of life and soul, even to the last drop of heart's blood. From Wordnik.com. [Masterpieces of Negro Eloquence The Best Speeches Delivered by the Negro from the days of Slavery to the Present Time] Reference
"It's changed you," he said with ungrudging admiration that had no tincture of diplomacy in it. From Wordnik.com. [The Best British Short Stories of 1922] Reference
Uncomplaining, ungrudging, unknowing, with that poor soft wandering eye, it was going back to Mother Earth. From Wordnik.com. [The Country House] Reference
He was ungrudging of John's prosperity, but still he looked at it in some disparagement, and shook his head. From Wordnik.com. [Tiverton Tales] Reference
She's an ungrudging guardian of her younger brother Jeremy, who was born with a severe case of Down syndrome. From Wordnik.com. [Powell's Books: Overview] Reference
Lord Russell bore an ungrudging testimony to the 'tact and discretion' Lord Stanley displayed in this negotiation. From Wordnik.com. [Historical and Political Essays] Reference
Margarita herself had never been so attentive to him, so eager for his ungrudging praise, so openly affectionate with him. From Wordnik.com. [Margarita's Soul The Romantic Recollections of a Man of Fifty] Reference
We have tried to present him as the Statesman and the Man of Action, and as the tried, the faithful, and the ungrudging, friend. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon — Volume 02] Reference
Mr. Bradlaugh, who was not included in the prosecution until a later stage of the proceedings, rendered us ungrudging assistance. From Wordnik.com. [Prisoner for Blasphemy] Reference
I needed the generous smile to prove to me that my greed for kindness, even when perhaps inopportune, was met in an ungrudging spirit. From Wordnik.com. [A Spirit in Prison] Reference
Stamp Acts, but for an open and ungrudging acknowledgement of the claim to a partial independence which had been made by the colonists. From Wordnik.com. [History of the English People, Volume VII (of 8) The Revolution, 1683-1760; Modern England, 1760-1767] Reference
We grew to love each other dearly, with that ungrudging, sympathizing, confiding friendship that is very rarely found between two women. From Wordnik.com. [A Romance of Two Worlds] Reference
Dignified owners shared with the common sailor and apprentices their ungrudging sympathy, and he received it with transparent gratitude. From Wordnik.com. [The Shellback's Progress In the Nineteenth Century] Reference
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