GRIEVANCE

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Traducere în limba română

grievance substantiv

1. jignire; motiv de nemulţumire;

to state one’s grievances a-şi arăta motivele de nemulţumire.

2. păs, necaz, plângere, jalbă;

what is your grievance? ce păs ai? ce te nemulţumeşte?

3. nedreptate;

to redress a grievance a repara o nedreptate.

Now, sir, if you imagine that you have a grievance against me, you will oblige me vastly by putting it into words.

(Rodney Stone, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Susan too was a grievance.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)