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grievance
zelfstandig naamwoord
1 grievance
A resentment strong enough to justify retaliation.
synoniemen: grudge, score.
Roget 619:
evil,
ill,
harm,
hurt. ,
mischief,
nuisance;
machinations of the devil,
Pandora's box,
ills that flesh is heir to.
blow,
buffet,
stroke,
scratch,
bruise,
wound,
gash,
mutilation;
mortal blow,
wound;
immedicabile vulnus [Lat.];
damage,
loss
etc.
(deterioration)
659.
disadvantage,
prejudice,
drawback.
disaster,
accident,
casualty;
mishap
etc.
(misfortune)
735;
bad job,
devil to pay;
calamity,
bale,
catastrophe,
tragedy;
ruin
etc.
(destruction)
162;
adversity
etc.
735.
mental suffering
etc.
828.
demon
etc.
980.
(Evil spirit)
bane,
etc.
663
(cause of evil).
badness,
etc.
649
(Production of Evil);
painfulness,
etc.
830;
evil doer,
etc.
913.
outrage,
wrong,
injury,
foul play;
bad turn,
ill turn;
disservice,
spoliation
etc.
791;
grievance,
crying evil.
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Roget 830:
painfulness
etc.
adj.;
trouble,
care
etc.
(pain)
828;
trial;
affliction,
infliction;
blow,
stroke,
burden,
load,
curse;
bitter pill,
bitter draught;
waters of bitterness.
annoyance,
grievance,
nuisance,
vexation,
mortification,
sickener†;
bore,
bother,
pother,
hot water,
sea of troubles"
[Hamlet],
hornet's nest,
plague,
pest.
cancer,
ulcer,
sting,
thorn;
canker
etc.
(bane)
663;
scorpion
etc.
(evil doer)
913;
dagger
etc.
(arms)
727;
scourge
etc.
(instrument of punishment)
975;
carking care,
canker worm of care.
mishap,
misfortune
etc.
(adversity)
735;
desagrement [Fr.],
esclandre [Fr.],
rub.
source of irritation,
source of annoyance;
wound,
open sore;
sore subject,
skeleton in the closet;
thorn in the flesh,
thorn in one's side;
where the shoe pinches,
gall and wormwood.
sorry sight,
heavy news,
provocation;
affront
etc.
929;
head and front of one's offending"
[Othello].
infestation,
molestation;
malignity
etc.
(malevolence)
907.
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Roget 923:
wrong;
what ought not to be,
what should not be;
malum in se [Lat.];
unreasonableness,
grievance;
shame.
injustice;
tort [Law];
unfairness
etc.
adj.;
iniquity,
foul play.
partiality,
leaning,
bias;
favor,
favoritism;
nepotism,
party spirit,
partisanship;
bigotry.
undueness
etc.
925;
wrongdoing
(vice)
945;
unlawfulness
etc.
964.
robbing Peter to pay Paul
etc.
v.;
the wolf and the lamb;
vice
etc.
945.
a custom more honored in the breach than the a custom more honored in the breach than the observance"
[Hamlet].
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Nederlands: haatdragendheid, rancune, ressentiment, verbittering, wrok
Pools: uraza
2 grievance
An allegation that something imposes an illegal obligation or denies some legal right or causes injustice.
3 grievance
A complaint about a (real or imaginary) wrong that causes resentment and is grounds for action.
Nederlands: grief
Pools: pretensja, wymówka, wyrzut, wytyk, żal
Moby betekeniswoordenboek: abomination, affliction, affront, allegation, atrocity, bad, bane, beef, beefing, befoulment, bellyache, bellyaching, bitch, bitching, bitter cup, bitter draft, bitter draught, bitter pill, blight, bone to pick, boycott, bugbear, burden, burden of care, calamity, cankerworm of care, care, challenge, charge, complaining, complaint, compunction, corruption, cross, crow to pluck, crown of thorns, crushing burden, crying evil, curse, damage, death, defilement, demonstration, demur, demurrer, despoliation, destruction, destructive criticism, detriment, disease, dissent, disservice, distress, encumbrance, evil, exception, expostulation, faultfinding, gall, gall and wormwood, great wrong, grievance committee, gripe, griping, groan, groaning, gross injustice, grouse, grousing, grudge, grumbling, hardship, harm, havoc, holler, howl, hurt, ill, imposition, indignation meeting, indignity, infection, infliction, injury, injustice, kick, kicking, load, march, miscarriage of justice, mischief, murmuring, nemesis, nonviolent protest, objection, open wound, oppression, outrage, pack of troubles, peck of troubles, peeve, peevishness, pest, pestilence, pet peeve, petulance, picketing, plague, plaint, poison, pollution, protest, protest demonstration, protestation, qualm, querulousness, rally, raw deal, remonstrance, remonstration, rigor, running sore, scolding, scourge, scruple, sea of troubles, sit-in, sniping, sorrow, squawk, squawking, strike, teach-in, the worst, thorn, torment, toxin, trial, tribulation, trouble, unfairness, venom, vexation, visitation, waters of bitterness, weight, whining, woe, wrong, yapping ... meer laten zien.
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