Synonyms for grievance
ˈgri vənsgriev·ance

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1. 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, wrong

   Antonyms:
   equity, fair play, fairness, faithfulness, honesty, honor, impartiality, integrity, justice, lawfulness, rectitude, right, righteousness, uprightness

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1. grievance

   Synonyms:
   burden, injury, complaint, trouble, oppression, hardship, injustice

   Antonyms:
   congratulation, boon, rejoicing, benefit, alleviation, disburdenment, riddance, privilege

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1. 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, scotch

2. grievancenoun

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

   Synonyms:
   grudge, score

3. grievancenoun

   a complaint about a (real or imaginary) wrong that causes resentment and is grounds for action

   Synonyms:
   grudge, score

Matched Categories

1. • Allegation
   • Complaint
   • Resentment

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1. grievancenoun

   Synonyms:
   hardship, wrong, injury, burden, oppression

2. grievancenoun

   Synonyms:
   grief, trial, cause of sorrow

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1. grievancenoun

   Synonyms:
   wrong, injustice, resentment, trouble, complaint, gravamen (Law)

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1. List of paraphrases for "grievance":

   grievances, complaint, claim, complaints, allegation

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How to use grievance in a sentence?

1. Jennifer Bartlett:

   [Lewicka] moved to Watford within weeks of the conclusion of her grievance and in the absence of any other explanation for this situation we find that her exclusion was victimization which continued until around the time of her dismissal.

2. Mark Mix:

   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.

3. Aaron Stein:

   Aaron Stein was expounding on a more personal, deeply held grievance about Turkey's global role.

4. Adam Lankford:

   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.

5. Michael Hayden:

   Let's run the clock back to 1933, which is really what I was trying to address, and in 1933, what did we see in Germany ? A cult of personality, a cult of nationalism, a cult of grievance, a press operation that looked like and was the ministry of propaganda and then the punishing of marginalized groups.