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What does grievance mean?

grievance

a complaint about a (real or imaginary) wrong that causes resentment and is grounds for action an allegation that something imposes an illegal obligation or denies some legal right or causes injustice (= grudge, score) a resentment strong enough to justify retaliation holding a grudge settling a score

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Simple sentences

Have you filed a grievance?

Movie subtitles

I hope you won't hold no, uh, you know, grievance against old Cim.
I'm meeting with the Grievance Committee.
That we are not dying over a personal grievance.
Is that your grievance?
Grievance?
I'll know his grievance or be much denied.
Mr. Cable, at the plant did he voice any grievance or discontent about his work there?
I shall listen to their grievance.
Everyone with a grievance is busy.
Yeah, but, well, uh, surely you must have some kind of personal grievance against the laws of this state?
The old grievance, eh, sailor?
I wonder when somebody's gonna show up on the agency's doorstep looking for you. to solve an old case or settle an old grievance.
You know Mr. Wilson I really don't think that you've got any great grievance against this extraordinary league.
We'll file a grievance with the union!
And you're the only one with a grievance against Mr. Grandmorin.
You are certain there was no one unearthed a grievance against your father or your family?
State your grievance if you have any.
He's the third person against whom the murderer holds a grievance.
I have no doubt his grievance will be increased. when he learns that I have married the lady of his choice- the Lady Luisa de Carvajal.
I must ask you to disperse. and if you have a grievance, to submit it in the proper fashion.
You have done me grievance!
Wait! No one has a greater grievance against this man than I have.
Then listen to my grievance.
If you have some collective grievance, best to send one person instead of all of you crowding in here.
I'll know his grievance, or be much denied.
It's a past grievance.
Thwarted ambition a sense of grievance, that's my diagnosis. Six rhetorical and two repetition, leaving nineteen of which we answered fifteen. And what did we get in return?
They apparently have a grievance with Q-- no doubt one of many life-forms that do.
File a grievance with the Economic Office.
He seemed to me only a townsman with a grievance.
In drink, with a grievance, I cannot say what he might do.
You have a grievance? Tell this motherfucker to get this gun outta my face.

News and current affairs

This ideology feeds a deep popular perception of China as a wounded, humiliated third-world victim and instills in the ruling Communist Party a powerful sense of unresolved grievance.
The resulting legacy of grievance, shame, and anger is part of what underpins the region's current malaise.
The politics of greed and grievance replace more far-sighted policymaking.
Why Putin's advisors and public-relations managers encourage him to make these banal triumphalist announcements is difficult to fathom unless one comprehends the sense of grievance that almost all Russians feel at the loss of Great Power status.
In fact, the street protests intensified, fueled by a new grievance.
These experiences became burned so deeply into the Chinese psyche that even China's current economic and political rise has not overcome an underlying sense of victimization and grievance.
If they unite in their moment of adversity and take their grievance into the streets, they will have to confront the generals, notorious for their disregard of civil rights and liberties.
The strident and damaging dogmatism of fundamentalists of every stripe has a common feature: a truculent sense of grievance, rooted in fear and resentment of modernity.

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