Sample sentences for GRIEVANCE

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Definition

the cause of a complaint (real or imagined); or the complaint in formally written form

More rarely, grievance can reference a feeling of resentment.

filed a grievance with the labor board

grievance = a formal written complaint

The First Amendment also says Congress will make no law depriving the right of people to peaceably "assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
It is a long-standing grievance.
French workers frequently air their grievances in street demonstrations.
Bear with each other and forgive whatever grievances you may have against one another. Forgive as the Lord forgave you.
Colossians 3:13 (NIV)
...you are one of those chaps who have always got a grievance.
Charles Dickens -- Hard Times
I told him gently of our grievances,
Shakespeare -- King Henry IV, Part 1
If, then, Demetrius and his fellow craftsmen have a grievance against anybody, the courts are open and there are proconsuls. They can press charges.
Acts 19:38 (NIV)
He was a man with many grievances, at least one of which appears justified.
Arthur Miller -- The Crucible

grievances = causes of complaint

I want to bring in my men so that they too can hear your grievances and take warning.
Chinua Achebe -- Things Fall Apart
It is plain enough why; if you marry Rogojin you lose your grievance; you will have nothing more to complain of.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- The Idiot
Women collect grievances, hold grudges and change shape.
Margaret Atwood -- Cat's Eye
If Ajihad told you of my past, you should know that I have grievances enough to fight the Empire until it is nothing but scattered ashes.
Christopher Paolini -- Eragon
I felt as if I were pouring out the whole year's grievances.
Ji-Li Jiang -- Red Scarf Girl
The friend, with a grievance in his eye, went to the youth.
Stephen Crane -- The Red Badge of Courage
Sanborn said that these days all manner of people aired their grievances on Boston Common.
Ann Petry -- Harriet Tubman
But, all those years, I'd been blind to a greater truth, which lay unacknowledged and unappreciated, buried deep beneath my grievances.
Khaled Hosseini -- And The Mountains Echoed
Flora has now her grievance, and she'll work it to the end."
Henry James -- The Turn of the Screw
Of course the proper forum to air workers' grievances is through the Union.
Arundhati Roy -- The God of Small Things
He did not believe that he had any real grievance.
Willa Cather -- O Pioneers!

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