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n. An actual or supposed circumstance regarded as just cause for complaint.

n. A complaint or protestation based on such a circumstance. See Synonyms at injustice.

n. Indignation or resentment stemming from a feeling of having been wronged.

n. Obsolete The act of inflicting hardship or harm.

n. Obsolete The cause of hardship or harm.

n. Something which causes grief.

n. A wrong or hardship suffered, which is the grounds of a complaint.

n. A complaint or annoyance.

n. A formal complaint, especially in the context of a unionized workplace.

n. A cause of uneasiness and complaint; a wrong done and suffered; that which gives ground for remonstrance or resistance, as arising from injustice, tyranny, etc.; injury.

n. Grieving; grief; affliction.

n. A cause of grief or distress; a wrong inflicted by another or others; a source or occasion of annoyance or hardship.

n. Grief; affliction.

n. Discomfort; pain.

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

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

n. a resentment strong enough to justify retaliation

"As Len Untereiner says, the main grievance is with the actual perpetrators of the harm and sexual abuse."

allegation    complaint    resentment    bitterness    gall    rancor    rancour   

oppression    trouble    hardship    burden    injury    grieving    grief    affliction    complain   

animosity    hardship    objection    feud    inconvenience    discontent    resentment    complaint    injustice    annoyance