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grievance
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  • French workers frequently air their grievances in street demonstrations.
    grievances = complaints
  • So you are bringing this grievance on behalf of Maitre d' Duras and Chef Zhukovsky?  (source)
    grievance = complaint
  • I shed my guilt when I accepted my decision on its own terms, without endlessly prosecuting old grievances, without weighing his sins against mine.  (source)
    grievances = causes of complaint
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  • Do not blame me for this particular grievance, Amy.  (source)
    grievance = causes of complaint
  • People began going to Fazlullah and his men to resolve grievances about anything from business matters to personal feuds.  (source)
  • Nourishing a grievance against the Arch-Community-Songster was useless; there was no possibility of being revenged on the Chief Bottler or the Assistant Predestinator.  (source)
    grievance = complaint
  • I just stood there looking from one distorted face to another, listening to this babble of enraged squabbling as the members of the Walls family gave vent to all their years of hurt and anger, each unloading his or her own accumulated grievances and blaming the others for allowing the most fragile one of us to break into pieces.  (source)
    grievances = causes of complaint
  • But the bitterness of her old grievance promptly stiffened up her wavering determination.  (source)
    grievance = cause of complaint or annoyance
  • I want to bring in my men so that they too can hear your grievances and take warning.  (source)
    grievances = causes of complaint
  • "God, but she could hold on to a grievance," he said, with a half-humorous wince, wiping his hand down the front of his face.†  (source)
    grievance = complaint
  • He was a man with many grievances, at least one of which appears justified.  (source)
    grievances = causes of complaint
  • The boy looked around the table, his green eyes shining with the grievance.†  (source)
    grievance = complaint
  • But, all those years, I'd been blind to a greater truth, which lay unacknowledged and unappreciated, buried deep beneath my grievances.  (source)
    grievances = feelings of complaint
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