What is another word for grievances?

Pronunciation: [ɡɹˈiːvənsɪz] (IPA)

Grievances are a common problem that most people face in their personal and professional lives. There are many synonyms to describe grievances, including complaints, protests, objections, criticisms, dissatisfactions, disapprovals, displeasures, regrets, reservations, and discontents. These words all convey a sense of dissatisfaction or unease with a particular situation or circumstance. They suggest that someone is not happy with the way things are and wants things to change. Using these words can help to clearly convey to others that you have a problem with something and want it to be addressed. If you have grievances, it is important to express them so that they can be resolved.

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Usage examples for Grievances

She would not trouble her mother with such petty grievances.
"Marjorie Dean High School Freshman"
Pauline Lester
Its very sorrows and grievances have nothing special or relative in them; they are the broad sorrows and grievances of humanity.
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae
We are all socialists now, only in feeling as much interest in these grievances as the socialists are in the habit of doing, but we have not departed from our old lines of social policy, and there is no need we should, for they are broad enough to satisfy every claim of sound social reform.
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae

Famous quotes with Grievances

  • Class action lawsuits are an important part of our legal system. All citizens should have the right to band together and settle grievances with bigger companies, but that system is broken and it needs fixing.
    Thomas Carper
  • Jokes are grievances.
    Marshall McLuhan
  • A good government may, indeed, redress the grievances of an injured people; but a strong people can alone build up a great nation.
    Thomas Francis Meagher
  • The stopping of the Judicial courts, had been blended, in the minds of some people, with the redress of grievances considered only as a mode of awakening the attention of the legislature.
    George Richards Minot
  • Orwell was the sort of man who was full of grievances. He was very loyal. Once he got to know you, he was extremely loyal. He hated passionately and irrationally.
    George Woodcock

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