All 6 Uses of
grievance
in
The Brothers Karamazov
- He completely abandoned the child of his marriage with Adelaida Ivanovna, not from malice, nor because of his matrimonial grievances, but simply because he forgot him.†
Chpt 1
- Of course this was no great grievance to him: he would not have troubled to contradict a set of tradespeople.†
Chpt 3 *
- He cherished a grievance on this ground, considering that he had been passed over in the service, and being firmly persuaded that in higher spheres he had not been properly appreciated, and had enemies.†
Chpt 9
- He was almost the only person who put implicit faith in Ippolit Kirillovitch's extraordinary talents as a psychologist and orator and in the justice of his grievance.†
Chpt 9
- But the doctor detected mania, above all, in the fact that the prisoner could not even speak of the three thousand roubles, of which he considered himself to have been cheated, without extraordinary irritation, though he could speak comparatively lightly of other misfortunes and grievances.†
Chpt 12
- He is a man with a grievance, he he!†
Chpt 12
Definition:
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(grievance) the cause of a complaint (real or imagined); or the complaint in formally written form