Giving and transferring
Synonyms for grudgingly
The synonym for grudgingly recorded in this bank is reluctantly, in the sense "in a reluctant, unwilling manner, as if forced". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.
The synonym for grudgingly
- reluctantlyadverb, in the sense "in a reluctant, unwilling manner, as if forced"
One pair, read and signed off by a human before it shipped. The bank records a synonym per sense, so a second one appears here the day grudgingly is audited in a second meaning.
in a reluctant, unwilling manner, as if forced
He grudgingly handed over the last slice of pizza after his sister glared at him for a full minute.
The true synonym
reluctantly
Same sentence, swapped: He reluctantly handed over the last slice of pizza after his sister glared at him for a full minute.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for grudgingly in the sentence quoted.
- playfully
- casually
- generously
Where grudgingly turns up in the game
grudgingly is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 2, Treeline. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.
Play grudgingly
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so grudgingly reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Closest first: other giving and transferring words at Treeline, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. grudgingly carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.