grievance
noun
a wrong considered as grounds for complaint, or something believed to cause distress.
grievances
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pluralof grievance.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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As we talked, a young man approached and told Lopez he’d seen her airing her grievances on TV news.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026
There are a lot of historians who think that the list has an order, that it starts with the smaller grievances and ends with the things the founders were most angry about.
From Slate ● Jul. 3, 2026
"I wanted to air the grievances we had."
From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2026
The Declaration of Independence contains a 300-word self-evident introduction and then an airing of grievances directed toward the “present King of Great Britain” and his “absolute Tyranny over these States.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 28, 2026
The lesson they took away was not that we had legitimate grievances but that they needed to be far more ruthless.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
