Synonym: complaint, evil, injury, injustice, objection, protest, wrong. Similar words: aggrieved, advanced, in advance, in advance of, relevant, irrelevant, grief, experience. Meaning: ['grɪːvns] n. 1. a resentment strong enough to justify retaliation 2. an allegation that something imposes an illegal obligation or denies some legal right or causes injustice 3. a complaint about a (real or imaginary) wrong that causes resentment and is grounds for action.
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31 The students had, however, taken a fairly bold action to call attention to their grievance.
32 Many Native Americans still feel a deep sense of grievance for what the government did to them in the past.
33 The grievance between the Bank Assistants and the Bank for parity was a fair contest.
34 The unfair advantage bestowed by pants was a lifelong grievance.
35 He had a slight grievance against the landowner, we understand, but hardly enough to account for this butchery.
36 Because of the underlying sense of grievance numerous situations could have been interpreted as yet further evidence of white imperialism.
37 That puts an end to all feeling of grievance, and so inner talking is cut off at its source.
38 The misconception, however, is that once a legitimate grievance has been dealt with, the violence will end.
39 This, not the introduction of new machinery, was the grievance of the framework knitters.
40 The initial approach should be made informally; thereafter you may submit a written statement of your grievance.
41 Anyone who has a legitimate grievance against the company can take it to the arbitration committee.
42 McAvennie disputed the fine and called on the Professional Footballer's grievance procedures to voice his dissent.
43 My grievance against our present masters is that, quite frankly, I find most of them rather common.
44 It was to respond instantly to any complaint or grievance regard-less of the merits, and just fight the company.
45 And those that are are met by reviewers with an odd undercurrent of grievance that is hard to explain.
46 So, for instance, the responsibility of governing bodies for disciplinary and grievance procedures overrides previous local and national agreements.
47 The court was told Terence Jowers had his own grievance against Mr Archer and had taken the opportunity to sort it out.
48 The child in her belly pounded and kicked as if he harbored a secret grievance against her.
49 His reserve broke before he had got far and he revealed his own grievance.
50 In 1773 the grievance committee ofthe Separate Baptists resolved to press their case.
51 How does this summary dismissal affect the child with a genuine grievance?
52 She filed a grievance last year after her supervisor refused to promote her.
53 Time limits are important and may well prevent a grievance from rumbling on,(http://sentencedict.com/grievance.html) thereby causing ill feeling and low morale.
54 The contract also established a grievance procedure and a salary schedule.
55 He sensed their grim satisfaction, something meritorious in the air, some old grievance righted at last.
56 Groups with a grievance could take their cases to court.
57 There were, of course, differences between taking a grievance to a supernatural being and instituting a case before a magistrate.
58 Resolving grievances Most complainants, however, are more interested in getting their grievance resolved than in disciplinary proceedings.
59 Keep Titania tough, springy and challenging: this speech is an accusation, and the expression of her grievance against Oberon.
60 Mulcaster had kept silent about his grievance.
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