UNGRUDGINGLY Synonyms: 61 Similar and Opposite Words

ungrudgingly

adverb

as in unselfishly

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And that’s just one of the many contributions Quavo has unselfishly gifted to the culture.

— Mikey Fresh, VIBE.com, 9 Oct. 2026
Dumfries cut inside and unselfishly rolled it across for Inter captain Lautaro Martínez to score one of the easiest goals of his career, tapping it into an empty net from three yards out.

— ABC News, ABC News, 13 May 2026

Definition of unselfishly

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Not every war could boast of attacks like this, with no one needing to be urged on, everyone rushing forward, selflessly giving their all.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, New Yorker, 27 Sep. 2026
In a moment of tremendous loss, ordinary people performed extraordinary acts of courage, Americans selflessly served strangers in need, and communities refused to let tragedy have the final word.

— Amy DeLaura, The Washington Examiner, 7 Sep. 2026

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There were hundreds of bikers milling around cheerfully in the showery sunshine and proudly displaying their hogs.

— Cressida Leyshon, New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2026
The camera pans across images of Boston’s historic Fenway Park and a grim-looking Schumer, contrasting those shots with footage of Collins cheerfully hobnobbing with Maine voters.

— Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 1 Oct. 2026

Definition of cheerfully

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Rooms Like the resort as a whole, all the 124 accommodations—81 suites and 43 villas—are graciously grand, with the smallest suites stretching over nearly 1,000 square feet.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Oct. 2026
All of these girls, all of them, so beautiful, dancing to the same song every night, skin against the cold security of the pole, the stage, accepting the proffered bills graciously.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 9 Oct. 2026

Definition of graciously

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Part of what fueled the ups and downs was the sense that Paul Baker is genially open to whatever life might throw at him — a personality type engineered to drive the acting-out Issa and the neurotic Anton to distraction.

— Daniel D'Addario, Variety, 30 Sep. 2026
Waiting to address the group, Larson genially reminisced with a retiree, Joe Suggs, one of his opponents in 1998.

— Mark Pazniokas, Hartford Courant, 23 Mar. 2026

Definition of genially

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And Rob Sand, the affably idiosyncratic state auditor who didn’t have a challenger, is officially up for governor.

— Elaine Godfrey, The Atlantic, 3 June 2026
Which means right about now, the island is buzzing with thousands of MAMILs (middle aged men in lycra) and affably amateur Brits are arriving by the planeload.

— Jennifer Leigh Parker, Forbes.com, 17 May 2026

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