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the cause of a complaint (real or imagined); or the complaint in formally written formMore 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
- 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!
grievances = causes of complaint
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