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as in grudges
a lingering ill will towards a person for a real or imagined wrong
this is no place to air your grievances against him
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as in complaints
an expression of dissatisfaction, pain, or resentment
she decided to file a formal grievance against the utility company
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Recent Examples of grievances
For all their grievances with Didion’s fiction, the women’s lives bear a striking resemblance to Didion’s own.
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Maddie Connors, Los Angeles Times, 28 Apr. 2026
The motive remains unclear, though state media reported the man left documents behind at the courthouse outlining his grievances.
—Stephen Sorace, FOXNews.com, 28 Apr. 2026
These days, revenge literature arrives most often as a sordid memoir or roman à clef in which grievances are recounted, villainy exposed, and relevant facts set forth.
—Charlie Tyson, The Atlantic, 27 Apr. 2026
Tensions have been fraught between the president and the United Kingdom under Prime Minister Keir Starmer, and the list of grievances is long.
—Kathryn Palmer, USA Today, 27 Apr. 2026
Journalism has always been a dangerous occupation, and in earlier times readers and subjects with grievances against newspaper writers did not sue them for libel.
—Encyclopedia Britannica, 27 Apr. 2026
Armenians at home and in the diaspora voiced their outrage at the friendly message, drawing up grievances and cursing the government, often with expletives.
—Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 25 Apr. 2026
Booker wasn’t the only Sun airing grievances.
—Hanna Wickes, Miami Herald, 23 Apr. 2026
The 48-year-old killer of the MIT physicist, who in a video confession expressed vague grievances dating back to his early adulthood, also shot 11 people at Brown University, killing two, before dying by suicide.
—Dan Adler, Vanity Fair, 22 Apr. 2026
Maddie Connors, Los Angeles Times, 28 Apr. 2026
The motive remains unclear, though state media reported the man left documents behind at the courthouse outlining his grievances.
—Stephen Sorace, FOXNews.com, 28 Apr. 2026
These days, revenge literature arrives most often as a sordid memoir or roman à clef in which grievances are recounted, villainy exposed, and relevant facts set forth.
—Charlie Tyson, The Atlantic, 27 Apr. 2026
Tensions have been fraught between the president and the United Kingdom under Prime Minister Keir Starmer, and the list of grievances is long.
—Kathryn Palmer, USA Today, 27 Apr. 2026
Journalism has always been a dangerous occupation, and in earlier times readers and subjects with grievances against newspaper writers did not sue them for libel.
—Encyclopedia Britannica, 27 Apr. 2026
Armenians at home and in the diaspora voiced their outrage at the friendly message, drawing up grievances and cursing the government, often with expletives.
—Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 25 Apr. 2026
Booker wasn’t the only Sun airing grievances.
—Hanna Wickes, Miami Herald, 23 Apr. 2026
The 48-year-old killer of the MIT physicist, who in a video confession expressed vague grievances dating back to his early adulthood, also shot 11 people at Brown University, killing two, before dying by suicide.
—Dan Adler, Vanity Fair, 22 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for grievances
Noun
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Internal drama — employee hook-ups, power plays, longstanding grudges — share space with the mix of the mundane and the outrageous that constitutes a typical day in a typical big-city emergency department.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
17 Apr. 2026
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Voters are fragments of coalitions, habits, grudges, identities, and instincts.—
Matt Klink,
Oc Register,
16 Apr. 2026
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Kissimmee commissioner Janette Martinez proclaimed her innocence against two ethics complaints against her, claiming they are politically motived as elections loom.—
Natalia Jaramillo,
The Orlando Sentinel,
29 Apr. 2026
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His clients have filed the first of many lawsuits to come from the small town, including complaints from six families of victims killed in the shooting, as well as one mother whose daughter continues to fight for her life in intensive care.—
Robert Pearlman,
ArsTechnica,
29 Apr. 2026
Noun
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But as the years and resentments pile on, their cancerous brotherhood threatens to obliterate them both.—
Carlos Aguilar,
Los Angeles Times,
23 Apr. 2026
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Lindsay-Abaire makes a real meal of sketching the rest of the neighborhood association, played by a bevy of nimble theatrical comedians, though their own simmering resentments tend to eddy alongside the central Kyra-Elliot conflict.—
Jackson McHenry,
Vulture,
22 Apr. 2026
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The moans announced the doubt throughout Riviera’s 18th green amphitheater, a bowl full of thousands of fans unsure if the new guy could do it.—
Brody Miller,
New York Times,
23 Feb. 2026
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At the moment that B’Tselem says Hathaleen collapsed, the visuals are jostled but moans of pain can be heard.—
Sam Metz,
Los Angeles Times,
16 Feb. 2026
Cite this Entry
“Grievances.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/grievances. Accessed 2 May. 2026.
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