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Grievance

noun

A resentment strong enough to justify retaliation. Synonyms: grudge, score. "Settling a score"

An allegation that something imposes an illegal obligation or denies some legal right or causes injustice.

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

... from Ward and Dennison. When I returned to them I found that my interrupted remark had created a greater disturbance than I had expected. Dennison was fuming like anything, and so far was he from thinking that Ward and I had a grievance against him that he was treating himself as ...

— Godfrey Marten, Undergraduate • Charles Turley

... main burden of taxation upon the Southern people, who were consumers and not manufacturers, not only by the enhanced price of imports, but indirectly by the consequent depreciation in the value of exports, which were chiefly the products of Southern States. The imposition of this grievance was unaccompanied by the consolation of knowing that the tax thus borne was to be paid into the public Treasury, for the increase of price accrued mainly to the benefit of the manufacturer. Nor was this all: a reference to the annual ...

— The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government • Jefferson Davis

... Herefordshire. Odo had had in his county an insurrection which threatened for a moment to have most serious consequences, but which had ended in a complete failure. The men of Kent, planning rebellion, had sent across the channel to Eustace, Count of Boulogne, who believed that he had causes of grievance against William, and had besought him to come to their aid in an attempt to seize the fortress of Dover. Eustace accepted the invitation and crossed over at the appointed time, but his allies had not all gathered when he arrived, and the unsteady character of the count wrecked the enterprise. ...

— The History of England From the Norman Conquest - to the Death of John (1066-1216) • George Burton Adams

... house had also been brought up, but no precise charge was made against her. The court was crowded, for Andrew, in his wrath at being unable to obtain Ronald's release, had not been backward in publishing his grievance, and many of his neighbours were present to hear this strange charge ...

— Bonnie Prince Charlie - A Tale of Fontenoy and Culloden • G. A. Henty

... those in this world who, in Browning's words, "endure no light, being themselves obscure." An outsider occasionally berated Sri Yukteswar for an imaginary grievance. My imperturbable guru listened politely, analyzing himself to see if any shred of truth lay within the denunciation. These scenes would bring to my mind one of Master's inimitable observations: "Some people try to be tall by cutting off the ...

— Autobiography of a YOGI • Paramhansa Yogananda

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