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grievance
[ gree-vuhns ]
noun
- a wrong considered as grounds for complaint, or something believed to cause distress:
Inequitable taxation is the chief grievance.
Synonyms: , , , ,
- a complaint, as against an unjust or unfair act:
to have a grievance against someone.
- a feeling or belief that one has been wronged, oppressed, or is the victim of an injustice; resentment:
The conflict on campus was described as the result of racial grievance or victim culture, depending on who reported it.
grievance
/ ˈɡːəԲ /
noun
- a real or imaginary wrong causing resentment and regarded as grounds for complaint
- a feeling of resentment or injustice at having been unfairly treated
- obsolete.affliction or hardship
Other 51Թ Forms
- ··Գ noun
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of grievance1
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of grievance1
Idioms and Phrases
see air one's grievances .Example Sentences
“Make Sure You Die Screaming” is, on the surface, ideologically coherent, its narrator very clearly on the left and furious at their parents’ descent into right-wing conspiracy theories and grievance politics.
And these positions could be made more attractive by the promise of advancement to union leadership positions, now too often the province of those who process membership grievances rather than working to widen unions’ reach.
Trump has suggested that his plan for reciprocal tariffs will help remedy such grievances, pumping up his announcement as "Liberation Day".
A criminology student who had a "grievance against women" has been jailed for attacking two friends in a frenzied stabbing on a beach in Bournemouth.
“Not having enough working buses is a county problem, NOT an inmate issue,” she wrote afterward on an inmate grievance form, a copy of which she shared with The Times.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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