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grievance
noun as in complaint, gripe
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Sir Keir said social media had created "a sort of industrialised culture of grievance, and entire world - not just a world view - created through our devices" that was "demonstrably untrue".
During a speech announcing a new digital ID scheme, the prime minister said the "defining political choice of our times" would be between the centre-left and the "politics of predatory grievance".
"This is the defining political choice of our times: a politics of predatory grievance, preying on the problems of working people… against the politics of patriotic renewal," Sir Keir Starmer will claim.
The woman who complained about his manner of sitting brought her grievances to the conductor, who phoned police and stopped the train, he wrote.
Always a sour type who liked to whine that he had always been treated unfairly, he nurtured a long list of grievances against a long list of perceived enemies.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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