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grievance

[gree-vuhns] / ˈgri vəns /


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The lawsuit was “frivolous” and exposed the legal profession to “contempt,” the Grievance Commission said in its complaint.

From Seattle Times • May 5, 2023

Sir Gavin has been reported to the MPs' bullying watchdog, the Independent Complaints and Grievance Scheme, over his WhatsApp messages to Ms Morton.

From BBC • Nov. 8, 2022

Grievance followed grievance when Roth’s “I Married a Communist,” a withering and purposefully recognizable portrayal of Bloom, repaid in full her own vindictive “Leaving a Doll’s House.”

From New York Times • Apr. 1, 2021

“Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America” — the last show organized by Enwezor and his only one devoted exclusively to art by African Americans — feels retrospective rather than prescient.

From Washington Post • Feb. 16, 2021

The Parliaments were to be kept antiently, we find in our old Author, twice in the year, that the Subject upon any occasion might have a ready Remedy and Redress for his Grievance.

From State Trials, Political and Social Volume 1 (of 2) by Stephen, Harry Lushington, Sir




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