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Synonyms for grievance
ˈgri vənsgriev·ance
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
grievance
Injustice is a violation or denial of justice, an act or omission that is contrary to equity or justice; as, the injustice of unequal taxes. In legal usage a wrong involves injury to person, property, or reputation, as the result of evil intent; injustice applies to civil damage or loss, not necessarily involving injury to person or property, as by misrepresentation of goods which does not amount to a legal warranty. In popular usage, injustice may involve no direct injury to person, property, interest, or character, and no harmful intent, while wrong always involves both; one who attributes another's truly generous act to a selfish motive does him an injustice. Iniquity, in the original sense, is a want of or a deviation from equity; but it is now applied in the widest sense to any form of ill-doing. Compare synonyms for CRIMINAL; SIN.
Synonyms:
iniquity, injury, injustice, unfairness, unrighteousness, wrongAntonyms:
equity, fair play, fairness, faithfulness, honesty, honor, impartiality, integrity, justice, lawfulness, rectitude, right, righteousness, uprightness
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
grievance
Synonyms:
burden, injury, complaint, trouble, oppression, hardship, injusticeAntonyms:
congratulation, boon, rejoicing, benefit, alleviation, disburdenment, riddance, privilege
Princeton's WordNet
grudge, score, grievancenoun
a resentment strong enough to justify retaliation
"holding a grudge"; "settling a score"
Synonyms:
account, sexual conquest, score, grade, musical score, grudge, mark, scotchgrievancenoun
an allegation that something imposes an illegal obligation or denies some legal right or causes injustice
grievancenoun
a complaint about a (real or imaginary) wrong that causes resentment and is grounds for action
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Dictionary of English Synonymes
grievancenoun
Synonyms:
hardship, wrong, injury, burden, oppressiongrievancenoun
Synonyms:
grief, trial, cause of sorrow
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
grievancenoun
Synonyms:
wrong, injustice, resentment, trouble, complaint, gravamen (Law)
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "grievance":
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Words popularity by usage frequency
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#361 | account | |
#834 | mark | |
#1158 | score | |
#1518 | grade | |
#1673 | wrong | |
#2022 | claim | |
#2620 | injury | |
#3124 | trouble | |
#4888 | complaint | |
#4967 | complaints | |
#6303 | burden | |
#15501 | grievance | |
#17024 | scotch | |
#17473 | injustice | |
#18786 | hardship | |
#18852 | oppression | |
#22717 | allegation | |
#23644 | grievances | |
#32033 | grudge | |
#40660 | iniquity | |
#58948 | unfairness | |
#95658 | unrighteousness |
How to use grievance in a sentence?
This proposed action by Obama’s Big Labor NLRB is a direct assault on a worker’s fundamental First Amendment right to freedom of association. - Greg Mourad, House Committee on Education has shown that union officials all too often initiate on-the-job discrimination, which forces a worker into the grievance process the union bosses control, in order to punish him or her for not joining the union in the first place.
However, it appears the plaintiffs' primary grievance stems from non-enforcement of federal laws regarding marijuana, as opposed to choices made by the voters of Colorado, we believe this suit is without merit and we will vigorously defend against it in the U.S. Supreme Court.
If it was a grievance or terroristic related, we just don't know.
There are several pathways we observe : antisocial individuals who are part of a gang, depressed and despondent persons who are highly distressed over a grievance and believe they have no future, and a small group of persons with severe mental illness that includes delusional thinking, in a workplace shooting, you want to look at the latter two as most likely.
Instead of making complaints to SEBI against broking firms, write your grievance on social networking platforms so that other investors can be protected because SEBI is worthless.
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