grievance
Use Grievance in a sentence
vəns noun
1.
a wrong considered as grounds for complaint, or something believed to cause distress: Inequitable taxation is the chief grievance.
2.
a complaint or resentment, as against an unjust or unfair act: to have a grievance against someone.
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| —n | |
| 1. | a real or imaginary wrong causing resentment and regarded as grounds for complaint |
| 2. | a feeling of resentment or injustice at having been unfairly treated |
| 3. | obsolete affliction or hardship |
| [C15 grevance, from Old French, from grever to | |
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Word Origin & History
grievance
c.1300, "state of being aggrieved," from O.Fr. grevance, from grever "to harm" (see grieve). In reference to a cause of such a condition, from late 15c.
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The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
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Example sentences
In any modernized country, the backward-looking party will always tend toward resentment and grievance.
The opposition does feel that it has specific grounds for grievance against the government.
His interests include literary criticism and what he dismisses as “grievance studies”.
Staff covered for each other, grievance processes were sabotaged and evidence was frequently destroyed.
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