All 8 Uses of
grievance
in
The Adventures of Augie March
- Giving herself these feminine cares in the brightness of her suite in the soft-blown-open summer beauty, she was not satisfied without social digging and the toil of grievances and antipathies.†
Chpt 8grievances = complaints
- To develop from crippled girl into crippled woman, in the family, in the house, such staleness and hardship—that's what it makes for, darkness, saturninity, oversat grievance.†
Chpt 9 *grievance = complaint
- She didn't seem to recall what grievances she had against me either, and when we sat down together on a bench in the parlor, between some silent old people, asked me, "And how is—is jener, the idiot?"†
Chpt 9grievances = complaints
- Not that she had any special grievance where she worked, but she believed in unions and she was on fine terms with her organizer, a man named Grammick.†
Chpt 13grievance = complaint
- Instead there was a rush on me of people having to have immediate action; some hand-hacked old kitchen stiff as thickened with grease as a miner or sandhog would be with clay, wanting me to go and see his boss, subito; or an Indian would bring his grievances written in a poem on a paper bag soaked with doughnut oil.†
Chpt 13grievances = complaints
- But what you must do meanwhile is get ready, have your people sign the cards, and prepare your demands and grievances.†
Chpt 13
- On behalf of the writers I had been reading I felt a grievance too.†
Chpt 16grievance = complaint
- She was hot, shaky, and hasty, and heavy clear tears gave her eyes that crazy largeness of grievance that sometimes they would get.†
Chpt 17
Definitions:
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(1)
(grievance) the cause of a complaint (real or imagined); or the complaint in formally written form
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
More rarely, in classic literature, grievance can reference a feeling of resentment.