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Adjective

Unwilling or with reluctance

Predisposed against giving or sharing

Feeling or showing envy

(of a person or their behaviour) Full of malice or spite

Unduly concerned with trivial matters, especially in a small-minded or spiteful way

Feeling or expressing resentment, disappointment, or anger

Feeling or displaying disappointment or a lack of contentment

Having the characteristics of a pig

Done against someone's will

Not friendly

Unnatural, artificial or fake in nature

Noun

A mean action

A feeling of discontented or resentful longing aroused by someone else's possessions, qualities, or luck

Verb

Present participle for to resent or envy the success or possessions of

Present participle for to feel resentful that (someone) has achieved (something)

Present participle for to deliberately hurt, annoy, or offend (someone)

Present participle for be very economical or mean about spending or providing something

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Unwilling or with reluctance

with a chip on one's shoulder

with chip on shoulder

with a chip on your shoulder

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Predisposed against giving or sharing

economizing^US

economising^UK

meagre^UK

meager^US

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Feeling or showing envy

sceptical^UK

colored^US

coloured^UK

skeptical^US

eating one's heart out

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(of a person or their behaviour) Full of malice or spite

accidentally on purpose

ill-humored^US

uncivilised^UK

uncivilized^US

calling a spade a spade

with a chip on your shoulder

at daggers drawn

nursing a grudge

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Adjective

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Unduly concerned with trivial matters, especially in a small-minded or spiteful way

sceptical^UK

skeptical^US

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Feeling or expressing resentment, disappointment, or anger

ill-humored^US

like a bear with a sore head

humourless^UK

humorless^US

as cross as two sticks

caviling^US

cavilling^UK

sombre^UK

somber^US

having got out of bed on the wrong side

having got out of bed the wrong side

having a fit of the sulks

with a chip on your shoulder

antagonized^US

dishonored^US

dishonoured^UK

antagonised^UK

with chip on shoulder

grudge-bearing

demanding

stubborn

with a chip on one's shoulder

criticizing^US

criticising^UK

like a cat on a hot tin roof

apt to fly off the handle

got up on wrong side of bed

having a chip on one's shoulder

like a fish out of water

like a cat on hot bricks

uncivilised^UK

uncivilized^US

have chip on shoulder

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Feeling or displaying disappointment or a lack of contentment

snivelling^UK

sniveling^US

ill-humored^US

carrying a chip on your shoulder

with a chip on your shoulder

fed up to the back teeth

victimised^UK

victimized^US

with a chip on one's shoulder

with chip on shoulder

have had a basinful of

have had it up to here with

have had something up to here

baulked^UK

balked^US

as cross as two sticks

antagonized^US

antagonised^UK

with all guns blazing

hot and bothered

at daggers drawn

blown a gasket

beside yourself with rage

dishonored^US

dishonoured^UK

scandalized^US

scandalised^UK

like a bear with a sore head

having a fit of the sulks

caviling^US

cavilling^UK

out of humor

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Having the characteristics of a pig

with eyes bigger than one's stomach

have eyes bigger than one's stomach

unable to be satisfied

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Done against someone's will

of the utmost importance

conforming to accepted standards

counted upon

most important

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Adjective

Not friendly

wintery^UK

wintry^US

not on speaking terms

unfavorable^US

keeping people at arm's length

unsavoury^UK

unsavory^US

unwilling to mix with other people

sceptical^UK

mum^UK

mom^US

skeptical^US

unfavourably disposed to

colorless^US

gray^US

colourless^UK

grey^UK

diametrically opposed

cool, calm and collected

playing one's cards close to one's chest

unable to get a word out

stony-eyed

unexcessive

bereft of speech

not given to excesses

laboured^UK

labored^US

keeping a low profile

hiding one's light under a bushel

wouldn't say boo to a goose

in control of yourself

rolling with the punches

playing your cards close to your chest

having both feet on the ground

humourless^UK

keeping a weather eye on

all ears

walking on egg shells

thinking twice

keeping on one's toes

handling with kid gloves

with one's eyes peeled

fetid^US

humorless^US

foetid^UK

lacking social skills

without a care in the world

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Unnatural, artificial or fake in nature

laboured^UK

phoney^UK

phony^US

labored^US

to all intents and purposes

not what it is cracked up to be

plagiarized^US

plagiarised^UK

economical with the truth

fantasized^US

colored^US

fantasised^UK

coloured^UK

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Noun

A mean action

dishonoring^US

grovelling^UK

groveling^US

quarrelling^UK

quarreling^US

Noun

A feeling of discontented or resentful longing aroused by someone else's possessions, qualities, or luck

Verb

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Present participle for to resent or envy the success or possessions of

“Maximising profit is in the nature of the animal, and if we want democratic choice, we cannot grudge commercial media exercising theirs.”

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Present participle for to feel resentful that (someone) has achieved (something)

“Ah well, I don't grudge her that moment of bitter victory.”

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Present participle for to deliberately hurt, annoy, or offend (someone)

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Present participle for be very economical or mean about spending or providing something

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