grievance

grievance    [Gree-vuh ns]

noun. a complaint

"The protests in Baltimore were similar to the Boston Tea Party in 1773, the more than 200,000 people at the Washington, D.C. National Mall to hear Martin Luther King Jr. in 1964, and the anti-war march of more than 500,000 on Washington, D.C., in 1969. When people feel disenfranchised, helpless, and hopeless, they will take to the streets to air their grievances."

"India's prime minister, Narendra Modi, told China's leaders that it was up to them to rethink policies that had hindered cooperation between the Asian giants. He added a proviso:  that the Chinese government should consider India's grievances."

"He filed a grievance against a neighbor who built a fence in his front yard in his town that does not allow that."

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