Vocabulary
Grievance
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
a real or imagined cause for complaint, especially unfair treatment.
Urdu meaning
شکایت، تکلیف
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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It is a closed loop of profit, power and prejudice, and every majorplayer profits.Once audiences are repeatedly fed a diet of grievance and perpetual threat, they begin to require stronger doses.
Dawn Editorials —
The Outrage Machine reloaded
— 2026-05-01
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For once, Pakistan is not approaching the table with a grievance or a request.
Dawn Editorials —
Building on global goodwill
— 2026-04-16
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That seven men, most of them white, some with criminal histories, would allegedly conspire to attack two foreign dissidents without any apparent personal grievance or material gain defies an easy explanation.
Dawn Editorials —
Critics` views
— 2026-02-09
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In the context of litigation, such subscription gives rise to questions such as: was the grievance instituted before the correct forum?
Dawn Editorials —
Transcendental justice
— 2026-02-06
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That pursuit was not subtle.President Trump spoke of the Nobel as something he had earned but been unfairly denied, a prize that history had misplaced.The grievance lingered, resurfacing whenever foreign policy or legacy came up.
Dawn Editorials —
Not quite Nobel
— 2026-01-18
Synonyms
injustice, unjust act, wrong, injury, ill, offence, disservice, unfairness, evil
Curator example
“a website which enabled staff to air their grievances”
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