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Grievance   /grˈivəns/   Listen
Grievance

noun
1.
A resentment strong enough to justify retaliation.  Synonyms: grudge, score.  "Settling a score"
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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"Grievance" Quotes from Famous Books



... You'll die of the smells." Gillow stared perplexedly skyward from under his tilted hat-brim; and then brought out, as from the depth of a rankling grievance: "I thought it ...
— The Glimpses of the Moon • Edith Wharton
... meeting of Parliament. When a gentleman has been in Parliament some years he may be able to reconcile himself to an obligatory vacation with a calm mind. But when the honours and glory are new, and the tedium of the benches has not yet been experienced, then such an accident is felt to be a grievance. But the young member was out of danger, and was, as Silverbridge declared, in the very best quarters which could be provided for a man ...
— The Duke's Children • Anthony Trollope
... why any one had such a grievance against you that you should be thrown into the hold and nearly killed? That was a strange thing to do, especially as you came aboard too late ...
— The Captain of the Kansas • Louis Tracy
... this. He was about to sail in search of the British fleet with what men he had because he was unable to obtain more, and he had rightly looked to Chauncey to supply the deficiency. Impulsively he asked to be relieved of his command and gave expression to his sense of grievance in a letter to the Secretary of the Navy in which he said, among other things: "I cannot serve under an officer who has been so totally regardless of my feelings.... The critical state of General Harrison was such that I took upon myself ...
— The Fight for a Free Sea: A Chronicle of the War of 1812 - The Chronicles of America Series, Volume 17 • Ralph D. Paine
... moment there was a sudden alarum among the soldiers, and I was able to dodge the familiar rehearsal of old Benjamin's grievance. ...
— Pebbles on the Shore • Alpha of the Plough (Alfred George Gardiner)


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